How to collect over two arrays then look back to one?

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I am reading Ruby for Rails and Ruby Cookbock and delighted by the
Array#find_all and Enumerable#collect methods. I'm wondering what the
idiomatic way to do the following is?

Two parallel arrays A, B . For each element n of A for which f(An) is true,
is g(B[n-3:n+3]) true? Where B[n-3:n+3] refers to seven elements of B whose
position is centered over An' position.

Can the block inside Enumerable#collect know it's position inside the
Enumerable? Can one collect two parallel arrays?

Peter

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Hmm this seems interestingly complicated - or I am just dully stupid;)

Well here is what I came up with:

a = [*1..20]
b = a.map{ |e| "Line #{e}" }

def ranges a, b, n, &block
### The following is what you were asking for :wink:
    b.values_at(*(0..a.length-1).zip(a).map{|e| block.call(e.last) ?
e.first: nil}.
    compact.map{|i| [*(i-n)..(i+n)]}.flatten.uniq.reject{|i|i<0}).compact

end

p ranges(a,b,1) { |e| (e%3).zero? }
p ranges(a,b,2) { |e| (e%3).zero? }
p ranges(a,b,1) { |e| (e%5).zero? }
p ranges(a,b,2) { |e| (e%5).zero? }

HTH
Robert

PS:
Golfers cut it down :wink:

R

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On 9/13/06, Peter Booth <pbooth@marketaxess.com> wrote:

I am reading Ruby for Rails and Ruby Cookbock and delighted by the
Array#find_all and Enumerable#collect methods. I'm wondering what the
idiomatic way to do the following is?

Two parallel arrays A, B . For each element n of A for which f(An) is
true,
is g(B[n-3:n+3]) true? Where B[n-3:n+3] refers to seven elements of B
whose
position is centered over An' position.

Can the block inside Enumerable#collect know it's position inside the
Enumerable? Can one collect two parallel arrays?

Peter

--
Deux choses sont infinies : l'univers et la bêtise humaine ; en ce qui
concerne l'univers, je n'en ai pas acquis la certitude absolue.

- Albert Einstein

3

I think...

a.values_at(*(0...a.size).to_a.select {|i| f(a[i]) && g([i-3,0].max..[i+3,a.size-1].min)})

Ruby seems a little verbose on this one.

-j

Peter Booth wrote:

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I am reading Ruby for Rails and Ruby Cookbock and delighted by the
Array#find_all and Enumerable#collect methods. I'm wondering what the
idiomatic way to do the following is?

Two parallel arrays A, B . For each element n of A for which f(An) is true,
is g(B[n-3:n+3]) true? Where B[n-3:n+3] refers to seven elements of B whose
position is centered over An' position.

Can the block inside Enumerable#collect know it's position inside the
Enumerable? Can one collect two parallel arrays?

Peter
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Peter Booth wrote:

I am reading Ruby for Rails and Ruby Cookbock and delighted by the
Array#find_all and Enumerable#collect methods. I'm wondering what the
idiomatic way to do the following is?

Two parallel arrays A, B . For each element n of A for which f(An) is true,
is g(B[n-3:n+3]) true? Where B[n-3:n+3] refers to seven elements of B whose
position is centered over An' position.

Can the block inside Enumerable#collect know it's position inside the
Enumerable? Can one collect two parallel arrays?

a = Array.new(12) {|i| i*i}
b = Array.new(12) {|i| i*3}
def f(n)
  1 == n % 2
end
def g(a)
  return false if a.size != 7
  0 == a.inject{|p,n| p*n}/a.inject{|s,n| s+n} % 4
end
result =
a.each_with_index{ |e,i|
  result << (f(e) && g( b[i-3 .. i+3] ))
}

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Peter Booth <pbooth@marketaxess.com> writes:

I am reading Ruby for Rails and Ruby Cookbock and delighted by the
Array#find_all and Enumerable#collect methods. I'm wondering what the
idiomatic way to do the following is?

Kind of. But first I'm going to re-arrange your email to answer more
didactically. :slight_smile:

Can the block inside Enumerable#collect know it's position inside the
Enumerable?

Enumerable::Enumerator -- require 'enumerator' -- can help you out with this.
It lets you create an Enumerable object which can call any 'each'-like method
of any other object. You can in turn call the 'collect' method of the
Enumerator object. So:

    array.to_enum(:each_with_index).collect { |value, index| ... }

(Using :each_with_index is a common enough case that Enumerator also adds
#enum_with_index to Enumerable.)

Can one collect two parallel arrays?

In several ways... The most basic is the Enumerable#zip method:

    (0..3).zip(('a'..'d')) # => [[0, "a"], [1, "b"], [2, "c"], [3, "d"]]

It returns a new array mapping each element of the receiving Enumerable to the
corresponding elements of the Enumerables passed as arguments.

Two parallel arrays A, B . For each element n of A for which f(An) is true,
is g(B[n-3:n+3]) true? Where B[n-3:n+3] refers to seven elements of B whose
position is centered over An' position.

Enumerable#inject is the most idiomatic way to perform most Enumerable
iteration not directly supported by other methods. If I understand you
properly, in this case you probably want something like:

    a.enum_with_index.inject() do |result, (v, n)|
      result << (f(v) ? g(b[n-3..n+3]) : false)
    end

Hope this helps!

-Marshall

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Hi --

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On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Peter Booth wrote:

I am reading Ruby for Rails and Ruby Cookbock and delighted by the
Array#find_all and Enumerable#collect methods. I'm wondering what the
idiomatic way to do the following is?

Two parallel arrays A, B . For each element n of A for which f(An) is true,
is g(B[n-3:n+3]) true? Where B[n-3:n+3] refers to seven elements of B whose
position is centered over An' position.

Can the block inside Enumerable#collect know it's position inside the
Enumerable? Can one collect two parallel arrays?

To answer the first question: no. You are free to join Citizens for
map_with_index, of which I am the founder and president :slight_smile:

David

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I think...

a.values_at(*(0...a.size).to_a.select {|i| f(a[i]) && g([i-3,0].max..[i+3,
a.size-1].min)})

I am afraid this does not what you want, select returns i's not the value of
the block
you had some great ideas I have stolen below though :slight_smile:
I'll try to fix your interpretation, ah I see you think he just wants the
indicies, so your solution is (almost) great, you can use [*0..a.size] but
you might have a problem with f(nil) so use
[*0..a.size-1]
OP also stated he wanted g(b[something]) not g(something) it is a riddle
an alternative might be
b.values_at([*0..a.size-1].select{|i|f a[i]}.map{|i|
g(b.values_at(*[*(i-n)..(i+n)].reject
etc. etc.

Ruby seems a little verbose on this one.

-j

I still think OP thaught g to be something abstract so I would write

def ranges a, b, n, &block
### The following is what you were asking for :wink:
    b.values_at(
    *(0..a.length-1).select{|i| block.call(a[i]) }.map{|i| [*(i-n)..(i+n)]
}.
    flatten.uniq.reject{|i|i<0}).compact

end

thanks to your ideas letting me see my stupid mistakes..

Robert

Peter Booth wrote:

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On 9/13/06, Jason Nordwick <jason@adapt.com> wrote:

> I am reading Ruby for Rails and Ruby Cookbock and delighted by the
> Array#find_all and Enumerable#collect methods. I'm wondering what the
> idiomatic way to do the following is?
>
> Two parallel arrays A, B . For each element n of A for which f(An) is
true,
> is g(B[n-3:n+3]) true? Where B[n-3:n+3] refers to seven elements of B
whose
> position is centered over An' position.
>
> Can the block inside Enumerable#collect know it's position inside the
> Enumerable? Can one collect two parallel arrays?
>
> Peter
>
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NY
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concerne l'univers, je n'en ai pas acquis la certitude absolue.

- Albert Einstein

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dblack@wobblini.net writes:

To answer the first question: no. You are free to join Citizens for
map_with_index, of which I am the founder and president :slight_smile:

What about Citizens Who Are Happy With enum_with_index.map ? I think they
have a thing-or-two to say on this issue...

-Marshall

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Here, here! Down with the giant collection of methods! Up with
higher order methods!

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On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 06:15:59PM +0900, Marshall T. Vandegrift wrote:

dblack@wobblini.net writes:

> To answer the first question: no. You are free to join Citizens for
> map_with_index, of which I am the founder and president :slight_smile:

What about Citizens Who Are Happy With enum_with_index.map ? I think they
have a thing-or-two to say on this issue...

-Marshall