<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >assoc</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="DSSSL Library Reference" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Miscellaneous" HREF="r300.htm"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="assoc-objs" HREF="assoc-objs.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="match-substitute-sosofo" HREF="match-substitute-sosofo.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >DSSSL Library Reference: Part of the Modular DocBook Stylesheet distribution</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="assoc-objs.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="match-substitute-sosofo.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="ASSOC" ></A >assoc</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN610" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >assoc -- Returns the association of an object in an associative list</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN613" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >(assoc obj alist)</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN616" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P >Given an associative list, returns the pair that has <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >obj</TT > as a <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >car</TT > or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#f</TT > if no such pair exists.</P ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT >obj</DT ><DD ><P >The associative key to locate.</P ></DD ><DT >alist</DT ><DD ><P >The associative list.</P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN631" ></A ><H2 >Example</H2 ><P ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >(assoc "a" (("a" "b") ("c" "d")))</TT > returns <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >("a" "b")</TT ></P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN636" ></A ><H2 >Author</H2 ><P >Norman Walsh, <ndw@nwalsh.com></P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN639" ></A ><H2 >Source Code</H2 ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >(define (assoc obj alist) ;; Returns the association of an object in an associative list (let loop ((al alist)) (if (null? al) #f (if (equal? obj (car (car al))) (car al) (loop (cdr al))))))</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="assoc-objs.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="match-substitute-sosofo.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >assoc-objs</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r300.htm" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >match-substitute-sosofo</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >