> "TS" == Tolkin, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TS> As another aside, if people are interested I can send 77 lines of data
TS> for each of these 2008 model year cars: Camry, Accord, Infiniti_G35,
TS> Impreza, Altima, Audi_A4, Volvo_S40, Saab_9_3
TS> I would not mind off-list opinio
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Tolkin, Steve
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:12 PM
To: Boston Perl Mongers
Subject: [Boston.pm] merging lists that are ordered but not sorted
I am looking for a perl program that will solve the following problem.
Suppose I have 2 or more lists that ar
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:27:16 -0500 (EST) Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
CD> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Tolkin, Steve wrote:
>> I want to reconstruct the underlying list. In other words the order of
>> the elements agrees in all the lists, but there is no sort condition.
...
CD> Out of curios
http://search.cpan.org/~vparseval/List-MoreUtils-0.22/lib/List/MoreUtils.pm
has primitives that look a little like what you're looking for, but
quite exactly the same. Maybe you could adapt one of those utilities?
On Jan 29, 2008 12:11 PM, Tolkin, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am looking fo
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Tolkin, Steve wrote:
> I want to reconstruct the underlying list. In other words the order of
> the elements agrees in all the lists, but there is no sort condition.
>
> Example:
> List 1: dog, cat, mouse
> List 2: dog, shark, mouse, elephant
>
> There are 2 possible output
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:11:56PM -0500, Tolkin, Steve wrote:
> I am looking for a perl program that will solve the following problem.
> Suppose I have 2 or more lists that are (conceptually) sublists of the
> same underlying list.
> I want to reconstruct the underlying list. In other words the o
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 12:11, Tolkin, Steve wrote:
> Suppose I have 2 or more lists that are (conceptually) sublists of the
> same underlying list.
> I want to reconstruct the underlying list. In other words the order of
> the elements agrees in all the lists, but there is no sort condition.
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 12:04 -0800, Ben Tilly wrote:
> [snip]
> That is logically unavoidable.
Yup, and in fact provably true. The problem is the same as finding a
topological ordering among a directed acyclic graph. Wikipedia can
inform you more on the topic
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topol
On Jan 29, 2008 10:57 AM, David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2008 12:11 PM, Tolkin, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I want to reconstruct the underlying list. In other words the order of
> > the elements agrees in all the lists, but there is no sort condition.
> >
> > Exampl
On Jan 29, 2008 12:11 PM, Tolkin, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to reconstruct the underlying list. In other words the order of
> the elements agrees in all the lists, but there is no sort condition.
>
> Example:
> List 1: dog, cat, mouse
> List 2: dog, shark, mouse, elephant
>
> There
I am looking for a perl program that will solve the following problem.
Suppose I have 2 or more lists that are (conceptually) sublists of the
same underlying list.
I want to reconstruct the underlying list. In other words the order of
the elements agrees in all the lists, but there is no sort cond
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