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I was hoping to get some help with a couple of problems I am working on.
On both problems I am working with a list of form:

First, I need to define a function that receives an association list of the form above and returns the following list:

output --> (jane father is pete mother is sue)

I have not defined a function yet, but I am able to produce the above output, without the "is" string, with the follwing code:
The above code outputs (JANE FATHER PETE MOTHER SUE)
My question is, how do I get the "is" string in (jane father is pete mother is sue) outputed?


For my second problem, I need to define a function that receives a key and an association list of the form above and returns the list in which key is the first member of.

I can, for example, produce the value of children, which is bob, with the follwing code:

How come when I define a function with the code below, I get NIL when searching for the value of children?
Searching with:

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

skuinders

for the first problem... split the (father pete) and (mother sue) lists and cons 'is to the second of each, then do your appending.

for the second problem, make your search function recursive so it can find atoms in the sublists.

hope this gentle guidance helps

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