clojure.core/val

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Type: function Added: Clojure 1.0 Examples: 4 Runnable: 3

([e])

Returns the value in the map entry.

Examples

by devn on 2010-08-02 ▶

;; emulate 'vals' (map val {:a 1 :b 2}) ;;=> (1 2)

by boxie on 2010-11-05 ▶

(val (first {:one :two})) ;;=> :two

by boxie on 2010-11-05 ▶

;syntactic sugar for (val) (:doc (meta #'meta))

by phreed on 2015-06-15 . May have evaluation errors. ▶

;; extracts the key of a map entry (val (clojure.lang.MapEntry. :a :b)) ;;=> :b

Note by dansalmo

This is my first attempt at using this site to gain an understanding of a closure function. Two of the examples above seem incorrect.

Example 3(?) seems to have nothing to do with val

(notice the lack of example identifiers)

See also

• clojure.core/vals (1)
• clojure.core/key (1)
• clojure.core/keys (2)

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