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-rw-r--r--tests/utils.scm14
2 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/guix/utils.scm b/guix/utils.scm
index 1d4b2ff9b0..0802a1b67a 100644
--- a/guix/utils.scm
+++ b/guix/utils.scm
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
;;; Copyright © 2014 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
;;; Copyright © 2014 Ian Denhardt <ian@zenhack.net>
+;;; Copyright © 2015 David Thompson <davet@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@
fold2
fold-tree
fold-tree-leaves
+ split
filtered-port
compressed-port
@@ -684,6 +686,23 @@ are connected to NODE in the tree, or '() or #f if NODE is a leaf node."
(else result)))
init children roots))
+(define (split lst e)
+ "Return two values, a list containing the elements of the list LST that
+appear before the first occurence of the object E and a list containing the
+elements after E."
+ (define (same? x)
+ (equal? e x))
+
+ (let loop ((rest lst)
+ (acc '()))
+ (match rest
+ (()
+ (values lst '()))
+ (((? same?) . tail)
+ (values (reverse acc) tail))
+ ((head . tail)
+ (loop tail (cons head acc))))))
+
;;;
;;; Source location.
diff --git a/tests/utils.scm b/tests/utils.scm
index 115868c857..b65d6d20ba 100644
--- a/tests/utils.scm
+++ b/tests/utils.scm
@@ -121,6 +121,20 @@
'(0 1 2 3)))
list))
+(test-equal "split, element is in list"
+ '((foo) (baz))
+ (call-with-values
+ (lambda ()
+ (split '(foo bar baz) 'bar))
+ list))
+
+(test-equal "split, element is not in list"
+ '((foo bar baz) ())
+ (call-with-values
+ (lambda ()
+ (split '(foo bar baz) 'quux))
+ list))
+
(test-equal "strip-keyword-arguments"
'(a #:b b #:c c)
(strip-keyword-arguments '(#:foo #:bar #:baz)