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      drop

      clojure.core

      Available since 1.0 (source)
      • (drop n)
      • (drop n coll)
      Returns a lazy sequence of all but the first n items in coll.
Returns a stateful transducer when no collection is provided.
      © Rich Hickey. All rights reserved. Eclipse Public License 1.0
      2 Examples
      ;; although negative (or zero) drop-item-counts are accepted they do nothing
(drop -1 [1 2 3 4])
;;=> (1 2 3 4) 

(drop 0 [1 2 3 4])
;;=> (1 2 3 4) 

(drop 2 [1 2 3 4])
;;=> (3 4) 

;; dropping more items than are present is allowed, and all items are dropped.
(drop 5 [1 2 3 4])
;;=> ()
      ;; similar to subvec but lazy and with seqs
(take 3 (drop 5 (range 1 11)))
;;=> (6 7 8)
      See Also
      clojure.core/take

      Returns a lazy sequence of the first n items in coll, or all items if there are fewer than n. Ret...

      Added by jartur
      clojure.core/drop-last

      Return a lazy sequence of all but the last n (default 1) items in coll

      Added by jartur
      clojure.core/drop-while

      Returns a lazy sequence of the items in coll starting from the first item for which (pred item) re...

      Added by jartur
      clojure.core/nthnext

      Returns the nth next of coll, (seq coll) when n is 0.

      Added by Dimagog
      clojure.core/nthrest

      Returns the nth rest of coll, coll when n is 0.

      Added by TimMc
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