How do I find the index of an item in a vector?

Question

Any ideas what ???? should be? Is there a built in? What would be the best way to accomplish this task?

(def v [\"one\" \"two\" \"three\" \"two         


        

Answer 1

I was attempting to answer my own question, but Brian beat me to it with a better answer!

(defn indices-of [f coll]
  (keep-indexed #(if (f %2) %1 nil) coll))

(defn first-index-of [f coll]
  (first (indices-of f coll)))

(defn find-thing [value coll]
  (first-index-of #(= % value) coll))

(find-thing "two" ["one" "two" "three" "two"]) ; 1
(find-thing "two" '("one" "two" "three")) ; 1

;; these answers are a bit silly
(find-thing "two" #{"one" "two" "three"}) ; 1
(find-thing "two" {"one" "two" "two" "three"}) ; nil

Answer 2

I recently had to find indexes several times or rather I chose to since it was easier than figuring out another way of approaching the problem. Along the way I discovered that my Clojure lists didn't have the .indexOf(Object object, int start) method. I dealt with the problem like so:

(defn index-of
"Returns the index of item. If start is given indexes prior to
 start are skipped."
([coll item] (.indexOf coll item))
([coll item start]
  (let [unadjusted-index (.indexOf (drop start coll) item)]
    (if (= -1 unadjusted-index)
  unadjusted-index
  (+ unadjusted-index start)))))