Re: Using list with append

[Stephen Berman]

On Wed, 09 Nov 2022 12:09:04 +0000 Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:

> This function makes a list of lists.
>
> (defun pmchart selectr nc)

I assume you meant this: (defun pmchart (descr selectr nc)

>   "TODO."
>
>   (seq-mapn
>      (lambda (p q)
>        (message "p: %S" p)
>        (list q (append (make-list p "xxxxx")
>                (make-list (- nc 1 p) ""))))
>        selectr
>        descr))
>
> Calling
>
> (pmchart '("Peter" "Paul") [3 2] 5)
>
> gives the list
>
> '(("Peter" ("xxxxx" "xxxxx" "xxxxx" ""))
>   ("Paul" ("xxxxx" "xxxxx" "" "")))
>
> But I want to adapt it to get this
>
> '(("Peter" "xxxxx" "xxxxx" "xxxxx" "")
>   ("Paul" "xxxxx" "xxxxx" "" ""))
>
> Doing the following did not help
>
> (list (append q (make-list p "xxxxx") (make-list (- nc 1 p) ""))))

You want to append the list of x's to the list containing the name, not
to the name (which is a sequence of characters, so appending to it would
make a list beginning with the numerical values of the characters of the
name):

(append (list q) (make-list p "xxxxx") (make-list (- nc 1 p) ""))

Steve Berman