[Help-glpk] pick element from set?

2012-07-01 Thread Kevin Hunter
Hello GLPK List, Is there a method to pick an arbitrary single item from a set? I don't care which one, but I need to have a single element from a set such that I can uniquely and consistently identify it. There is no order to the set, but /if/ there were an ordering to this set, I might re

Re: [Help-glpk] pick element from set?

2012-07-01 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 3:11am -0400 Sun, 01 Jul 2012, Kevin Hunter wrote: Is there a method to pick an arbitrary single item from a set? I don't care which one, but I need to have a single element from a set such that I can uniquely and consistently identify it. Gah, should have mentioned "In GMPL, is there a met

Re: [Help-glpk] pick element from set?

2012-07-01 Thread glpk xypron
Hello Kevin, there is no function that will return an element of a set (except for one-dimensional numeric sets). You can create subsets. e.g. set X, dimen 2 := {(5, 7), (1, 10), (23, -3), ("y", "x"), ("a", "abc")}; set S := setof{(i,j) in X : forall{(k,l) in X} i <=k && j <= l} (i,j); see ht

Re: [Help-glpk] post-processing without defined variables?

2012-07-01 Thread glpk xypron
Hello Kevin, either you can use the GLPK library from another programming language (C, Java, ...) or you can use scripting around glpsol, cf. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GLPK/Scripting_plus_MathProg Best regards Xypron Original-Nachricht > Datum: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 19:52:41 -0