Re: Update assq-delete-all to support keys of string type

[John Mastro]

Kaushal <address@hidden> wrote:
> I wanted to use assq-delete-all to remove all elements in an alist whose car
> matched a string.
>
> Example alist:
>
> (setq temp-alist '(("a" . 1) ("b" . 2)))
>
> Currently I cannot do
>
> (setq temp-alist (assq-delete-all "a" temp-alist))
>
> Is there a right way to do this?

You can do this with `cl-remove':

(cl-remove "a"
           '(("a" . 1) ("b" . 2))
           :key #'car
           :test #'string=) ;=> (("b" . 2))

-- 
john