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Add Swap Two Items in a Vector as a clojure til.

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- [Specify the Directory of a Shell Command](clojure/specify-the-directory-of-a-shell-command.md)
- [Splitting On Whitespace](clojure/splitting-on-whitespace.md)
- [Swap Two Items in a Vector](clojure/swap-two-items-in-a-vector.md)
- [Type of Anything](clojure/type-of-anything.md)
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# Swap Two Items in a Vector
If you want to replace the value at an index in a vector, you can use the
`assoc` function supplied by `clojure.core` like so:
```clojure
> (assoc [5 6 7 8] 1 9)
; [5 9 7 8]
```
Likewise, if you want to replace two items in a vector, you can extend the
above like so:
```clojure
> (assoc [5 6 7 8] 1 2 2 4)
; [5 2 4 8]
```
We can take advantage of that second example to construct a function that
will swap two values:
```clojure
(defn swap
[items i j]
(assoc items i (items j) j (items i)))
```
This function will break on values of `i` and `j` that are out of the bounds
of `items`, but dealing with that is left as an exercise to the reader.
[source](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5979538/what-is-the-idiomatic-way-to-swap-two-elements-in-a-vector)