How would be a functional approach to shifting certain array elements?

Question

I have a Scala app with a list of items with checkboxes so the user select some, and click a button to shift them one position up (left). I decided to write a function to sh

Answer 1

Here's another variant on Geoff's answer:

def shift[T](l: List[T], p: T => Boolean): List[T] = {
  l match {
    case a::b::t if ! p(a) && p(b) => b::shift(a::t, p)
    case a::t => a::shift(t, p)
    case Nil => l
  }
}

Quickly tested using

scala> def pred(c: Char) = c.isUpper
pred: (c: Char)Boolean

scala> shift("abcDEfghI".toList, pred)
res3: List[Char] = List(a, b, D, E, c, f, g, I, h)

scala> shift("AbCd".toList, pred)
res4: List[Char] = List(A, C, b, d)

scala> shift(Nil, pred)
res5: List[Nothing] = List()

Here's version two

def shift[T](l: List[T], p: T => Boolean, r: List[T] = Nil): List[T] = {
  l match {
    case a::b::t if ! p(a) && p(b) => shift(a::t, p, b::r)
    case a::t => shift(t, p, a::r)
    case Nil => r.reverse
  }
}