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# 29 Remove item from list, by its index
Remove i-th item from list items.
This will alter the original list or return a new list, depending on which is more idiomatic.
Note that in most languages, the smallest valid value for i is 0.
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with Ada.Containers.Vectors;
use Ada.Containers;
Items.Delete (I);
(defn remove-idx [i items]
    (keep-indexed #(when-not (= i %1) %2) items))
items.erase (items.begin () + i);

using System.Collections.Generic;
items.RemoveAt(i);
import std.algorithm.mutation;
items = items.remove(i);
items.removeAt(i);
List.delete_at(items, i)
{Left, [_|Right]} = lists:split(I-1, Items),
Left ++ Right.
integer, allocatable, dimension(:) :: items
items = [items(:i-1), items(i+1:)]
items = append(items[:i], items[i+1:]...)
import "slices"
items = slices.Delete(items, i, i+1)
copy(items[i:], items[i+1:])
items[len(items)-1] = nil
items = items[:len(items)-1]
take i items ++ drop (1 + i) items
let new_list = items.filter(function(val,idx,ary) { return idx != i });
items.splice(i,1);
items.remove(i);
import java.util.List;
items.remove(i);
items.removeAt(i)
(defun remove-item-by-index (index items)
  "Construct a fresh list which is a copy of ITEMS (a list) excluding the item at INDEX."
  (loop for item in items
          as i from 0
          unless (= index i) collect item))
local removedItem = table.remove(items,i)
@import Foundation;
[items removeObjectAtIndex:i];
unset($items[$i]);
list[i] := list[high(list)];
setlength(list,high(list));
$removed_element = splice @items, $i, 1;
del items[i]
items.pop(i)
items.delete_at(i) 
items.remove(i)
val without = {
  val (left, right) = items.splitAt(i)
  left ++ right.drop(1)
}

(define (removeElementByIndex L i)
  (if (null? L)
      null
      (if (= i 0)
          (cdr L)
          (cons (car L) (removeElementByIndex (cdr L) (- i 1)))
       )
    )
)
items removeAt: i.

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