SPUG: re-size array
DeRykus, Charles E
charles.e.derykus at boeing.com
Mon Oct 11 18:35:34 CDT 2004
You can juke the "odd no. of elements in hash assigment" warning
and maintain hash insert ordering too:
tie my %hash, 'Tie::IxHash' or die;
%hash = @array % 2 ? (@array,undef) : @array;
my @odd = keys %hash; my @even= values %hash;
$#even-- unless defined $even[-1];
(Assuming @array won't produce key duplicates
that'd vanish when hashified)
-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Meyer [mailto:cmeyer at helvella.org]
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 3:45 PM
To: michaelrwolf at att.net
Cc: SPUG; Luis Medrano
Subject: Re: SPUG: re-size array
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 10:03:10PM +0000, Michael R. Wolf wrote:
>
>
>
> > %hash = @array;
> >
> > @even = keys %hash;
> > @odd = values %hash;
>
> Tricky! I like it.
>
> But beware. It only works if you don't care about the ordering of the
> @even or @odd arrays. If you merely need to consider them as sets
> (collections), this will work. Otherwise, the ordering has been lost
> by creating a hash out of it.
Also worth noting is that you will get a bogus undef in the @odd array, if there were an odd number of elements in @array.
>
> It'll probably take a not-so-insignificant amount of time/CPU to build
> that hash.
I wouldn't think so. Perl hashes are pretty speedy to use. But just to be sure, here's a test of hashes vs iterating through the list:
Rate iter hash
iter 11962/s -- -14%
hash 13831/s 16% --
Hashes 14% faster than iterating (at least by my cheap test).
-Colin.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Benchmark ':all';
my @a = 1..100;
cmpthese( 100_000, { iter => \&oddeven_iterate, hash => \&oddeven_hash } );
sub oddeven_hash {
my ( $o, $e, %h );
%h = @a;
$o = [ keys %h ];
$e = [ values %h ];
return $e, $o;
}
sub oddeven_iterate {
my ( $o, $e );
push @{ $_ % 2 ? $o : $e }, $a[$_] for 0..$#a;
return $e, $o;
}
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