I believe that i. stops at the first match. So this should work.
({.~0 i.~])4 3 2 8 0 9 1
4 3 2 8
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 2:08 PM Julian Fondren <jfond...@minimaltype.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-01-15 at 22:58 +0300, 'Sergey Kamenev' via Programming
> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I need test function f on array x1 x2 ... xn
> >
> > If f(x) = 0 then no need test another member of array.
>
> So, you want the member of an array that passes a test, and you don't
> want to apply the test to the entire array. I'm still learning J, but
> this works:
>
> until =: 1 : '([: $: }.)`{.@.([: x&-: [: u {.) y'
> 25 *: until i.10
> 5
> 1 >&5 until i.10
> 6
>
> On the LHS of @. are two gerunds: a recursion over the tail of the
> list, and a verb to get the head of the list. On the RHS is a test
> against the head of the list. As long as that test fails, it's tested
> against later elements of the list, and finally when the test succeeds,
> the head of the list is returned.
>
> > example =: monad : 0
> > for_i. a do.
> > if. 25 = f i do.
> > i return.
> > end.
> > 0
> > end.
> > )
>
> So you also want a 0 on failure? You can get that with :: as eventually
> the recursion will run out of list.
>
> 25 *: until 1 2 3 4
> |stack error
> | ([:$:}.)`{.@.([:x&-:[:u{.)y
> 25 (*: until :: 0) 1 2 3 4
> 0
> 25 (*: until :: 0) 5
> 5
>
> > example a
> >
> > Nice day!
> > Sergey
> >
> >
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