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Re: build-in function for obtaining the index of an element of a list


From: Juanma Barranquero
Subject: Re: build-in function for obtaining the index of an element of a list
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:51:25 +0100

> Is there any Emacs built-in function that returns the index of an element of
> a list?

If you don't mind using the CL package (included with Emacs), the
function you want is `position'

 (position "banana" '("apple" "banana" "orange") :test 'string=)   =>  1

    Juanma



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