select/3 for lists?

Hi everybody,

I'm looking for a library function to get the n-th element of a list.  The
documentation for ord_set mentions a function select/3, whose name suggests
this functionality.  The only select/3 functions in the index are in libraries
iostream and m_map, which are clearly not related to lists.  Maybe, there is a
"hidden" select/3?

Uli


If there's no such library function, I'd suggest something like

get_nth_element(List, 1, Elem) :- !,
   List = [Elem|_].	      

get_nth_element(List, N, Elem) :-
   N >= 1,
   N2 is N-1, !, 
   List = [_|List2],
   get_nth_element(List2, N2, Elem).


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Ulrich Scholz

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