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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/src/lists.erl | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/src/lists.erl b/lib/stdlib/src/lists.erl index d6a9f4645d..6303465d3d 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/src/lists.erl +++ b/lib/stdlib/src/lists.erl @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ -compile({no_auto_import,[min/2]}). -export([append/2, append/1, subtract/2, reverse/1, - nth/2, nthtail/2, prefix/2, suffix/2, last/1, + nth/2, nthtail/2, prefix/2, suffix/2, droplast/1, last/1, seq/2, seq/3, sum/1, duplicate/2, min/1, max/1, sublist/2, sublist/3, delete/2, unzip/1, unzip3/1, zip/2, zip3/3, zipwith/3, zipwith3/4, @@ -203,6 +203,19 @@ suffix(Suffix, List) -> Delta = length(List) - length(Suffix), Delta >= 0 andalso nthtail(Delta, List) =:= Suffix. +%% droplast(List) returns the list dropping its last element + +-spec droplast(List) -> InitList when + List :: [T, ...], + InitList :: [T], + T :: term(). + +%% This is the simple recursive implementation +%% reverse(tl(reverse(L))) is faster on average, +%% but creates more garbage. +droplast([_T]) -> []; +droplast([H|T]) -> [H|droplast(T)]. + %% last(List) returns the last element in a list. -spec last(List) -> Last when |