On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, tim vets wrote:
what's the best way to 'interlace' two lists, i.e. turn:
1 2 3 4 and 5 6 7 8
into
1 5 2 6 3 7 4 8
?
It's usually called interleaving.
If they are all floats, the fastest is something like this :
[list prepend 1 4 f #]
|
[#join 0]---------------[list prepend 1 4 f #]
|
[#transpose]
|
[#to_l]
where the 1 4 f # prefix means you want to make a grid of 1 row and
4 columns of floats. Then in contact with grid-inlets, those prefixed
lists become grids of 1 by 4.
[#join] joins them by the dimension 0, which makes a single grid of
(1+1=2) rows by 4 columns.
[transpose] swaps the first two dimensions, which makes a grid of 4
rows by 2 columns.
[#to_l] makes a list of 8 elements, row after row.
Of course you can instead use a [list append] and messagebox containing :
$1 $5 $2 $6 $3 $7 $4 $8
and in that particular case, it's more efficient, but the GridFlow
solution works for any list length, and is probably more efficient for big
lists...
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