Re: [Boston.pm] merging lists that are ordered but not sorted

2008-01-30 Thread Ted Zlatanov
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 curiosity,

Re: [Boston.pm] merging lists that are ordered but not sorted

2008-01-30 Thread Tolkin, Steve
I am replying to myself to thank all the Perl mongers who replied with help. Indeed, my problem is topological sort, as stated by Alex Vandiver and Gyepi SAM. I did not see that because the input format is different from that required by the Unix tsort program. A search for: tsort perl power

Re: [Boston.pm] merging lists that are ordered but not sorted

2008-01-30 Thread Uri Guttman
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 opinions on any of

[Boston.pm] merging lists that are ordered but not sorted

2008-01-29 Thread Tolkin, Steve
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

Re: [Boston.pm] merging lists that are ordered but not sorted

2008-01-29 Thread David Golden
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 are 2

Re: [Boston.pm] merging lists that are ordered but not sorted

2008-01-29 Thread Bernardo Rechea
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.

Re: [Boston.pm] merging lists that are ordered but not sorted

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Devers
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 outputs, and

Re: [Boston.pm] merging lists that are ordered but not sorted

2008-01-29 Thread Gyepi SAM
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

Re: [Boston.pm] merging lists that are ordered but not sorted

2008-01-29 Thread Ben Tilly
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. Example: List 1:

Re: [Boston.pm] merging lists that are ordered but not sorted

2008-01-29 Thread Alex Vandiver
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 (