| title | Seq.unfold<'State,'T> Function (F#) |
|---|---|
| description | Seq.unfold<'State,'T> Function (F#) |
| keywords | visual f#, f#, functional programming |
| author | dend |
| manager | danielfe |
| ms.date | 05/16/2016 |
| ms.topic | language-reference |
| ms.prod | visual-studio-dev14 |
| ms.technology | devlang-fsharp |
| ms.assetid | 3f3ee704-139b-408e-a406-a938b2061f70 |
Returns a sequence that contains the elements generated by the given computation.
Namespace/Module Path: Microsoft.FSharp.Collections.Seq
Assembly: FSharp.Core (in FSharp.Core.dll)
// Signature:
Seq.unfold : ('State -> ('T * 'State) option) -> 'State -> seq<'T>
// Usage:
Seq.unfold generator stategenerator Type: 'State -> ('T * 'State) option
A function that takes the current state and returns an option tuple of the next element of the sequence and the next state value.
state Type: 'State
The initial state value.
The result sequence.
The given initial state argument is passed to the element generator. For each IEnumerator elements in the stream are generated on-demand by applying the element generator, until a None value is returned by the element generator. Each call to the element generator returns a new residual state.
The stream will be recomputed each time an IEnumerator is requested and iterated for the sequence. The returned sequence may be passed between threads safely. However, individual IEnumerator values generated from the returned sequence should not be accessed concurrently.
This function is named Unfold in compiled assemblies. If you are accessing the function from a language other than F#, or through reflection, use this name.
The following code demonstrates the use Seq.unfold to generate two sequences. The first just generates a sequence of integers. The second generates a sequence of Fibonacci numbers, which are composed by adding the two previous numbers in the sequence. The first two numbers in the Fibonacci sequence are (1, 1), which forms the initial state parameter. The state at each step consists of the two numbers whose sum produces the next Fibonacci number.
[!code-fsharpMain]
Output
The sequence seq1 contains numbers from 0 to 20.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
The sequence fib contains Fibonacci numbers.
2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144 233 377 610 987 1597
Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2
F# Core Library Versions
Supported in: 2.0, 4.0, Portable