;;; ;;; This is a personal utility module that I use in most of my Common Lisp ;;; projects. It originated in the Atlantis project, but has been used many ;;; times since and evolved accordingly. ;;; ;;; Licensed under the terms of the MIT license. ;;; author: Daniel Vedder ;;; date: 09/05/2015 ;;; ;;; MACROS (defmacro debugging (str &rest format-args) "If *debugging* is true, print str" `(when *debugging* (format t ,str ,@format-args))) ;; XXX potentially inefficient if called often (defmacro set-list (value &rest var-list) "Set each symbol in var-list to value" (do* ((expr (list 'setf)) (vl var-list (cdr vl)) (var (car vl) (car vl))) ((null vl) expr) (setf (cdr (last expr)) (list var)) (setf (cdr (last expr)) (list value)))) (defmacro input (&rest vars) "Take input from terminal and store each element in a passed variable" ;; XXX Add a prompt parameter again? `(progn (format t "~&>>> ") (set-list (read) ,@vars) (first (list ,@vars)))) (defmacro input-string (&optional (var (gensym))) "Read a string input line" `(progn (format t "~&>>> ") (setf ,var (read-line)) ,var)) (defmacro while (condition &body body) "An implementation of a while loop as found in other languages" `(do () ((not ,condition) NIL) ,@body)) (defmacro != (object1 object2 &key (test 'eql)) "A not-equals macro to save some typing" `(not (,test ,object1 ,object2))) (defmacro cassoc (entry table &key (test #'eql)) "Returns (car (cdr (assoc entry table)))" `(car (cdr (assoc ,entry ,table :test ,test)))) (defmacro safe-nth (index lst) "Return (nth index lst), or NIL if index is out of range" `(if (> ,index (1- (length ,lst))) NIL (nth ,index ,lst))) (defmacro safe-aref (vector index) "Return (aref vector index), but return NIL if out of range" `(if (> ,index (1- (length ,vector))) NIL (aref ,vector ,index))) (defmacro dovector ((element vector &optional (return-variable NIL)) &body body) "A macro analogous to dolist" (let-gensyms (index) `(do* ((,index 0 (1+ ,index)) (,element (safe-aref ,vector ,index) (safe-aref ,vector ,index))) ((= ,index (length ,vector)) ,return-variable) ,@body))) ;;; FUNCTIONS ;; Some of these functions are probably quite inefficient (lots of consing) (defun remove-first-if (fn lst) "Remove the first element in a list that satisfies the given predicate" (cond ((null lst) NIL) ((funcall fn (car lst)) (cdr lst)) (T (cons (car lst) (remove-first-if fn (cdr lst)))))) (defun average (&rest numbers) "Compute the average of the given numbers" (/ (reduce #'+ numbers) (length numbers))) (defun keys (assoc-list) "Return a list of the keys in an association list" (if (null assoc-list) NIL (cons (car (car assoc-list)) (keys (cdr assoc-list))))) (defun letter-in-string (letter str) "Is this letter in this string?" (dotimes (i (length str) NIL) (when (equalp (aref str i) letter) (return T)))) ;; TODO change &optional to &key (and figure out why the heck that doesn't ;; work - clisp bug?), add null-filler keyword (defun string-from-list (lst &optional (separator " - ")) "Put all elements of lst into a single string, separated by the separator" (cond ((null lst) "") ((= (length lst) 1) (to-string (car lst))) (T (concatenate 'string (to-string (first lst)) (to-string separator) (string-from-list (cdr lst) separator))))) (defun split-string (str separator) "Split the string up into a list of strings along the separator character" (cond ((equalp str (to-string separator)) NIL) ((zerop (count-instances separator str)) (list str)) (T (let ((split-elt (cut-string str (position separator str)))) (cons (first split-elt) (split-string (second (cut-string (second split-elt) 1)) separator)))))) (defun cut-string (s i) "Cut string s in two at index i and return the two substrings in a list" (if (or (minusp i) (> i (length s))) s (let ((s1 (make-string i)) (s2 (make-string (- (length s) i)))) (dotimes (c (length s) (list s1 s2)) (if (> i c) (setf (aref s1 c) (aref s c)) (setf (aref s2 (- c i)) (aref s c))))))) (defun char-list-to-string (char-list) "Convert a character list to a string" (let ((s (make-string (length char-list) :initial-element #\SPACE))) (dotimes (i (length char-list) s) (setf (aref s i) (nth i char-list))))) (defun trim-whitespace (s) "Trim off spaces and tabs before and after string s" (string-trim '(#\space #\tab) s)) (defun to-string (x) "Whatever x is, convert it into a string" (cond ((stringp x) x) ((or (symbolp x) (characterp x)) (string x)) (t (format NIL "~S" x)))) (defun extract-elements (str) "Extract all Lisp elements (strings, symbols, numbers, etc.) from str" (multiple-value-bind (next-element i) (read-from-string str nil) (if (null next-element) NIL (cons next-element (extract-elements (second (cut-string str i))))))) (defun count-instances (search-term search-sequence &key (test #'eql)) "Count the number of instances of search-term in search-sequence" (let ((count 0)) (dotimes (i (length search-sequence) count) (when (funcall test search-term (elt search-sequence i)) (incf count))))) (defun most-common-element (lst &key (test #'eql)) "Return the most common element in this list and how often it appears" ;;This function has multiple return values! ;;In case of multiple mces, return the one that appears first (let ((elements-counted NIL) (max 0) (mce NIL)) (dolist (e lst (values mce max)) (unless (member e elements-counted :test test) (let ((count (count-instances e lst :test test))) (when (> count max) (setf max count) (setf mce e))) (setf elements-counted (append elements-counted (list e))))))) (defun nths (n lst) "Take in a list of lists and return the nth element of each" (when (and lst (listp (car lst))) (cons (nth n (car lst)) (nths n (cdr lst))))) (defun set-p (lst) "Is lst a set (i.e. no elements occur more than once)?" (cond ((null lst) T) ((member (car lst) (cdr lst)) NIL) (T (set-p (cdr lst))))) (defun range (stop &key (start 0) (step 1)) "Return a list of numbers from start to stop" ;;XXX Surely this must exist as a function in Common Lisp already, ;; I just don't know what it's called... (unless (>= start stop) (cons start (range stop :start (+ start step) :step step)))) (defun to-list (vector &optional (next-elt 0)) "Turn the vector into a list" (if (= next-elt (1- (length vector))) NIL (cons (aref vector next-elt) (to-list vector (1+ next-elt))))) (defun cut-list (l i) "Cut list l in two at index i and return the two sublists in a list" (if (or (< i 1) (> i (length l))) l (do* ((lst2 l (cdr lst2)) (lst1 (list (car lst2)) (append lst1 (list (car lst2))))) ((= i (length lst1)) (list lst1 (cdr lst2)))))) (defun random-elt (seq) "Return a random element of this sequence" (elt seq (random (length seq)))) (defun chancep (percent) "Do a random test, with the percentage giving the success probability" (> percent (random 100))) (defun load-text-file (file-name) "Load a text file into a list of strings (representing the lines)" (with-open-file (f file-name) (do* ((line (read-line f nil nil) (read-line f nil nil)) (file-lines (list line) (append file-lines (list line)))) ((null line) file-lines)))) (defun print-text-file (file-name) "Print out the contents of this text file" (dolist (line (load-text-file file-name)) (unless (null line) (format t "~%~A" line)))) (defun write-to-file (text filename &optional (append NIL)) "Write text (a string or list of strings) to the specified file" (let ((text-list (if (listp text) text (list text))) (f (if append (open filename :direction :output :if-exists :append :if-does-not-exist :create) (open filename :direction :output)))) (dolist (line text-list) (format f "~&~A~&" line)) (close f))) (defun write-list (lst filename) "Write a list to file, one entry per line." (let ((f (open filename :direction :output))) (dolist (i lst) (format f "~&~S" i)) (close f))) (defun build-symbol (&rest components) "Concatenate the passed components into a single symbol" (read-from-string (string-from-list components ""))) (defun make-list-function (container-type &optional (add-s t)) "Return a function to return a list of the names of all objects of the specified type in the container struct" #'(lambda (object-type container) (let* ((get-objects (symbol-function (build-symbol container-type "-" object-type (if add-s "s" "")))) (get-object-name (symbol-function (build-symbol object-type "-name"))) (objects (funcall get-objects container)) (name-list NIL)) (dolist (o objects name-list) (when (stringp o) (return objects)) (setf name-list (cons (funcall get-object-name o) name-list)))))) ;; DEPRECATED - replace with number-menu (defun choose-number-option (option-list) "The user chooses one out of a list of options, the index is returned" (dotimes (i (length option-list)) (format t "~&~S) ~A" (1+ i) (nth i option-list))) (simple-input choice) (while (or (not (numberp choice)) (< choice 1) (> choice (length option-list))) (format t "~&Invalid choice! Please choose again:") (simple-input choice)) (1- choice)) ;; DEPRECATED - replace with number-menu (defun choose-option (option-list) "Like choose-number-option, but return the value of the choice" ;; Basically just a utility wrapper (nth (choose-number-option option-list) option-list)) ;; SUPERSEDES choose-number-option AND choose-option! (defun number-menu (entries &optional (header "Please choose an option:")) "Display a number-based menu and act on the user's choice" ;; The param entries is a list of lists in the form ;; (<description-string> <entry function>) (format t "~&~A" header) (dotimes (i (length entries)) (format t "~&~S) ~A" (1+ i) (first (nth i entries)))) (format t "~&>>> ") (setf choice (read)) (while (or (not (numberp choice)) (> choice (length entries)) (< choice 1)) (format t "~&Invalid choice! Please choose again:~%>>> ") (setf choice (read))) (funcall (second (nth choice entries))))