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Declaration

Define an empty list

Assign the variable "list" to a list with no elements

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let list = []

let list = List.empty

let list = new Generic.List<string>()

let list = new Generic.LinkedList<string>()

Define a static list

Define the list [One, Two, Three, Four, Five]

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let list = ["One"; "Two"; "Three"; "Four"; "Five"]

let list = (new Generic.LinkedList<string>([|"One"; "Two"; "Three"; "Four"; "Five"|]))

let list = (new Generic.LinkedList<string>())

list.AddFirst("One") ; list.AddLast("Five") ; list.AddBefore(list.Find("Five"), "Four")
list.AddAfter(list.Find("One"), "Two") ; list.AddAfter(list.Find("Two"), "Three")

let list = (new Generic.List<string>())

[|"One"; "Two"; "Three"; "Four"; "Five"|] |> Array.iter (fun x -> list.Add(x))

Output

Join the elements of a list, separated by commas

Given the list [Apple, Banana, Carrot] produce "Apple, Banana, Carrot"

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let result = String.Join(", ", [|"Apple"; "Banana"; "Carrot"|])

let result = (List.fold_left (fun acc item -> acc ^ (", " ^ item)) (List.hd fruit) (List.tl fruit))

let result = (List.fold_left (fun (acc : StringBuilder) (item : string) -> acc.Append(", ").Append(item)) (new StringBuilder(List.hd fruit)) (List.tl fruit)).ToString()

Join the elements of a list, in correct english

Create a function join that takes a List and produces a string containing an english language concatenation of the list. It should work with the following examples:
join([Apple, Banana, Carrot]) = "Apple, Banana, and Carrot"
join([One, Two]) = "One and Two"
join([Lonely]) = "Lonely"
join([]) = ""

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Produce the combinations from two lists

Given two lists, produce the list of tuples formed by taking the combinations from the individual lists. E.g. given the letters ["a", "b", "c"] and the numbers [4, 5], produce the list: [["a", 4], ["b", 4], ["c", 4], ["a", 5], ["b", 5], ["c", 5]]

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let combinations = (List.fold_left (fun acc number -> acc @ (List.map (fun letter -> (letter, number)) letters)) [] numbers)

Access

Fetch an element of a list by index

Given the list [One, Two, Three, Four, Five], fetch the third element ('Three')

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let result = List.nth ["One"; "Two"; "Three"; "Four"; "Five"] 2

Fetch the last element of a list

Given the list [Red, Green, Blue], access the last element ('Blue')

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let last list =
let rec last' list' =
match list' with
| [x] -> x
| x :: xs -> last' xs
if List.is_empty list then failwith "empty list" else last' list

// ------

let result = last list

let result = (List.nth list ((List.length list) - 1))

let result = (List.hd (List.rev list))

Find the common items in two lists

Given two lists, find the common items. E.g. given beans = ['broad', 'mung', 'black', 'red', 'white'] and colors = ['black', 'red', 'blue', 'green'], what are the bean varieties that are also color names?

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let beans = (Set.of_list ["broad"; "mung"; "black"; "red"; "white"])
let colors = (Set.of_list ["black"; "red"; "blue"; "green"])
let common = (Set.intersect beans colors)

Display the unique items in a list

Display the unique items in a list, e.g. given ages = [18, 16, 17, 18, 16, 19, 14, 17, 19, 18], display the unique elements, i.e. with duplicates removed.

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(Set.of_list [18; 16; 17; 18; 16; 19; 14; 17; 19; 18]) |> Set.iter (fun age -> printf "%d, " age)

Modification

Remove an element from a list by index

Given the list [Apple, Banana, Carrot], remove the first element to produce the list [Banana, Carrot]

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let split_at list n =
let rec split_at' list' n' left right =
match list' with
| [] -> (List.rev left, List.rev right)
| x :: xs -> if n' <= n then split_at' xs (n' + 1) (x :: left) right else split_at' xs (n' + 1) left (x :: right)
split_at' list 0 [] []

// ------

let (_, right) = split_at fruit 0

let drop list n =
if n <= 0 then
list
else
let (_, right) = split_at list (n - 1)
right

// ------

let result = (drop fruit 1)

Remove the last element of a list

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let take list n =
if n <= 0 then
list
else
let (left, _) = split_at list (n - 1)
left

// ------

let result = (take fruit ((List.length fruit) - 1))

let but_last list =
let rec but_last' list' acc =
match list' with
| [x] -> List.rev acc
| x :: xs -> but_last' xs (x :: acc)
if List.is_empty list then [] else but_last' list []

// ------

let result = (but_last fruit)

Rotate a list

Given a list ["apple", "orange", "grapes", "bananas"], rotate it by removing the first item and placing it on the end to yield ["orange", "grapes", "bananas", "apple"]

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let rotate list n =
if n <= 0 then
list
else
let (left, right) = split_at list (n - 1)
right @ left

// ------

let result = (rotate fruit 1)

Manipulation

Gather together corresponding elements from multiple lists

Given several lists, gather together the first element from every list, the second element from every list, and so on for all corresponding index values in the lists. E.g. for these three lists, first = ['Bruce', 'Tommy Lee', 'Bruce'], last = ['Willis', 'Jones', 'Lee'], years = [1955, 1946, 1940] the result should produce 3 actors. The middle actor should be Tommy Lee Jones.

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let result = (List.zip3 first last years)

List Combinations

Given two source lists (or sets), generate a list (or set) of all the pairs derived by combining elements from the individual lists (sets). E.g. given suites = ['H', 'D', 'C', 'S'] and faces = ['2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10', 'J', 'Q', 'K', 'A'], generate the deck of 52 cards, confirm the deck size and check it contains an expected card, say 'Ace of Hearts'.

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let cards = (List.fold_left (fun acc suite -> acc @ (List.map (fun face -> (suite, face)) faces)) [] suites)

printfn "Deck has %d cards" (List.length cards)
printfn "%s" (if (List.exists (fun e -> e = ("h", "A")) cards) then "Deck contains 'Ace of Hearts'" ; else "'Ace of Hearts' not in deck")

let product (set1 : List<'a>) (set2 : List<'a>) : List<'a * 'a> =
let p = new ResizeArray<'a * 'a>()
for e1 in set1 do for e2 in set2 do p.Add(e1, e2) done done
Array.to_list (p.ToArray())

// ------

let cards = product suites faces

printfn "Deck has %d cards" (List.length cards)
printfn "%s" (if (List.exists (fun e -> e = ("h", "A")) cards) then "Deck contains 'Ace of Hearts'" ; else "'Ace of Hearts' not in deck")

Perform an operation on every item of a list

Perform an operation on every item of a list, e.g.
for the list ["ox", "cat", "deer", "whale"] calculate
the list of sizes of the strings, e.g. [2, 3, 4, 5]

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let lengths = List.map String.length ["ox"; "cat"; "deer"; "whale"]

Split a list of things into numbers and non-numbers

Given a list that might contain e.g. a string, an integer, a float and a date,
split the list into numbers and non-numbers.

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