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6.7.2.7 List Searching

The following procedures search lists for particular elements. They use different comparison predicates for comparing list elements with the object to be searched. When they fail, they return #f, otherwise they return the sublist whose car is equal to the search object, where equality depends on the equality predicate used.

Scheme Procedure: memq x lst

C Function: scm_memq (x, lst)

Return the first sublist of lst whose car is eq? to x where the sublists of lst are the non-empty lists returned by (list-tail lst k) for k less than the length of lst. If x does not occur in lst, then #f (not the empty list) is returned.

Scheme Procedure: memv x lst

C Function: scm_memv (x, lst)

Return the first sublist of lst whose car is eqv? to x where the sublists of lst are the non-empty lists returned by (list-tail lst k) for k less than the length of lst. If x does not occur in lst, then #f (not the empty list) is returned.

Scheme Procedure: member x lst

C Function: scm_member (x, lst)

Return the first sublist of lst whose car is equal? to x where the sublists of lst are the non-empty lists returned by (list-tail lst k) for k less than the length of lst. If x does not occur in lst, then #f (not the empty list) is returned.

See also SRFI-1 which has an extended member function (SRFI-1 Searching).