Print the hash elements by grouping their values in Raku - hash

I keep record of how many times a letter occur in a word e.g. 'embeddedss'
my %x := {e => 3, m => 1, b => 1, d => 3, s => 2};
I'd like to print the elements by grouping their values like this:
# e and d 3 times
# m and b 1 times
# s 2 times
How to do it practically i.e. without constructing loops (if there is any)?
Optional Before printing the hash, I'd like to convert and assing it to a temporary data structure such as ( <3 e d>, <1 m b>, <2 s> ) and then print it. What could be the most practical data structure and way to print it?

Using .categorize as suggested in the comments, you can group them together based on the value.
%x.categorize(*.value)
This produces a Hash, with the keys being the value used for categorization, and the values being Pairs from your original Hash ($x). This can be looped over using for or .map. The letters you originally counted are the key of the Pairs, which can be neatly extracted using .map.
for %x.categorize(*.value) {
say "{$_.value.map(*.key).join(' and ')} {$_.key} times";
}
Optionally, you can also sort the List by occurrences using .sort. This will sort the lowest number first, but adding a simple .reverse will make the highest value come first.
for %x.categorize(*.value).sort.reverse {
say "{$_.value.map(*.key).join(' and ')} {$_.key} times";
}

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Raku: Trouble Accessing Value of a Multidimensional Hash

I am having issues accessing the value of a 2-dimensional hash. From what I can tell online, it should be something like: %myHash{"key1"}{"key2"} #Returns value
However, I am getting the error: "Type Array does not support associative indexing."
Here's a Minimal Reproducible Example.
my %hash = key1-dim1 => key1-dim2 => 42, key2-dim1 => [42, 42];
say %hash{'key1-dim1'}{'key1-dim2'}; # 42
say %hash{'key2-dim1'}{'foo bar'}; # Type Array does not support associative indexing.
Here's another reproducible example, but longer:
my #tracks = 'Foo Bar', 'Foo Baz';
my %count;
for #tracks -> $title {
$_ = $title;
my #words = split(/\s/, $_);
if (#words.elems > 1) {
my $i = 0;
while (#words.elems - $i > 1) {
my %wordHash = ();
%wordHash.push: (#words[$i + 1] => 1);
%counts.push: (#words[$i] => %wordHash);
say %counts{#words[$i]}{#words[$i+1]}; #===============CRASHES HERE================
say %counts.kv;
$i = $i + 1;
}
}
}
In my code above, the problem line where the 2-d hash value is accessed will work once in the first iteration of the for-loop. However, it always crashes with that error on the second time through. I've tried replacing the array references in the curly braces with static key values in case something was weird with those, but that did not affect the result. I can't seem to find what exactly is going wrong by searching online.
I'm very new to raku, so I apologize if it's something that should be obvious.
After adding the second elements with push to the same part of the Hash, the elment is now an array. Best you can see this by print the Hash before the crash:
say "counts: " ~ %counts.raku;
#first time: counts: {:aaa(${:aaa(1)})}
#second time: counts: {:aaa($[{:aaa(1)}, {:aaa(1)}])}
The square brackets are indicating an array.
Maybe BagHash does already some work for you. See also raku sets without borders
my #tracks = 'aa1 aa2 aa2 aa3', 'bb1 bb2', 'cc1';
for #tracks -> $title {
my $n = BagHash.new: $title.words;
$n.raku.say;
}
#("aa2"=>2,"aa1"=>1,"aa3"=>1).BagHash
#("bb1"=>1,"bb2"=>1).BagHash
#("cc1"=>1).BagHash
Let me first explain the minimal example:
my %hash = key1-dim1 => key1-dim2 => 42,
key2-dim1 => [42, 42];
say %hash{'key1-dim1'}{'key1-dim2'}; # 42
say %hash{'key2-dim1'}{'key2-dim2'}; # Type Array does not support associative indexing.
The problem is that the value associated with key2-dim1 isn't itself a hash but is instead an Array. Arrays (and all other Positionals) only support indexing by position -- by integer. They don't support indexing by association -- by string or object key.
Hopefully that explains that bit. See also a search of SO using the [raku] tag plus 'Type Array does not support associative indexing'.
Your longer example throws an error at this line -- not immediately, but eventually:
say %counts{...}{...}; # Type Array does not support associative indexing.
The hash %counts is constructed by the previous line:
%counts.push: ...
Excerpting the doc for Hash.push:
If a key already exists in the hash ... old and new value are both placed into an Array
Example:
my %h = a => 1;
%h.push: (a => 1); # a => [1,1]
Now consider that the following code would have the same effect as the example from the doc:
my %h;
say %h.push: (a => 1); # {a => 1}
say %h.push: (a => 1); # {a => [1,1]}
Note how the first .push of a => 1 results in a 1 value for the a key of the %h hash, while the second .push of the same pair results in a [1,1] value for the a key.
A similar thing is going on in your code.
In your code, you're pushing the value %wordHash into the #words[$i] key of the %counts hash.
The first time you do this the resulting value associated with the #words[$i] key in %counts is just the value you pushed -- %wordHash. This is just like the first push of 1 above resulting in the value associated with the a key, from the push, being 1.
And because %wordHash is itself a hash, you can associatively index into it. So %counts{...}{...} works.
But the second time you push a value to the same %counts key (i.e. when the key is %counts{#words[$i]}, with #words[$i] set to a word/string/key that is already held by %counts), then the value associated with that key will not end up being associated with %wordHash but instead with [%wordHash, %wordHash].
And you clearly do get such a second time in your code, if the #tracks you are feeding in have titles that begin with the same word. (I think the same is true even if the duplication isn't the first word but instead later ones. But I'm too confused by your code to be sure what the exact broken combinations are. And it's too late at night for me to try understand it, especially given that it doesn't seem important anyway.)
So when your code then evaluates %counts{#words[$i]}{#words[$i+1]}, it is the same as [%wordHash, %wordHash]{...}. Which doesn't make sense, so you get the error you see.
Hopefully the foregoing has been helpful.
But I must say I'm both confused by your code, and intrigued as to what you're actually trying to accomplish.
I get that you're just learning Raku, and that what you've gotten from this SO might already be enough for you, but Raku has a range of nice high level hash like data types and functionality, and if you describe what you're aiming at we might be able to help with more than just clearing up Raku wrinkles that you and we have been dealing with thus far.
Regardless, welcome to SO and Raku. :)
Well, this one was kind of funny and surprising. You can't go wrong if you follow the other question, however, here's a modified version of your program:
my #tracks = ['love is love','love is in the air', 'love love love'];
my %counts;
for #tracks -> $title {
$_ = $title;
my #words = split(/\s/, $_);
if (#words.elems > 1) {
my $i = 0;
while (#words.elems - $i > 1) {
my %wordHash = ();
%wordHash{#words[$i + 1]} = 1;
%counts{#words[$i]} = %wordHash;
say %counts{#words[$i]}{#words[$i+1]}; # The buck stops here
say %counts.kv;
$i = $i + 1;
}
}
}
Please check the line where it crashed before. Can you spot the difference? It was kind of a (un)lucky thing that you used i as a loop variable... i is a complex number in Raku. So it was crashing because it couldn't use complex numbers to index an array. You simply had dropped the $.
You can use sigilless variables in Raku, as long as they're not i, or e, or any of the other constants that are already defined.
I've also made a couple of changes to better reflect the fact that you're building a Hash and not an array of Pairs, as Lukas Valle said.

Perl slices and references

I created the following slice:
my %hash = ( a => 1, b => 2, c => 3 );
my #backslashed_slice_result = \#hash{qw(a b c)};
# $backslashed... <-- originally I wrote this is a scalar, see below.
I expected this to produce an array reference to an array populated by the hash slice, equivalent to:
my $arrayref_containing_slice = [ #hash{qw(a b c)} ]; # [1, 2, 3]
But actually is doing something more like:
my #mapped_list_of_values_to_refs = map { \$hash{$_} } qw(a b c); # (\1, \2, \3)
The main point I could find in the documentation that describes this behaviour is the statement:
A slice accesses several elements of a list, an array, or a hash
simultaneously using a list of subscripts.
So is \#hash{qw(a b c)} actually a list slice, rather than a hash slice? I am surprised at the reference being taken of the values of the hash, instead of of the resulting array of values. What is it about the syntax that causes perl to apply the leading \ to the values of the hash?
Two points:
First, a hash slice does not produce an array, it produces a list of the sliced hash elements.
Second, using \ on a list produces a list of references to the elements of the first list.

Perl - least common multiple

This code should do the LCM from N numbers.
I tried to put prints wherever I can in order to see where is the mistake. and I think is in:
if($vec[0] == $vec[$n-1]){
$resultado = $vec[0];
last;
}
But I can not make it work.
Could you please help me?
I'm a rookie with Perl.
Hope you can solve this problem.
Also I tried to change the variables but it does not work. I mean
$u = 0 , $w = $n-1;
FULL CODE
To get the LCM, you can split the task into multiple subroutines:
is_prime # returns true if the value is prime
roots # returns the roots of a number (all prime numbers that make up a value. Ex: roots of 12 are: 2, 2, 3)
LCM # takes a list of values. Extract the roots while the number is not prime. Store in a hash like and increment everytime we see the root
So we'll have a hash like:
%sub_total = (
VALUE => TIMES_FOUND,
2 => 2,
3 => 1,
);
We have another hash which is the total. If the sub_total hash has a key that is used more often than in the total hash, we add it to the total.
Finally, we loop through the total hash and and find the product using the algorithm:
for (%total){
$prod *= $_ ** $total {$_};
}
Note
I'll shortly attach the code I wrote for getting the LCM. It's not with me now here.

Hash value is not re-initialized when loop is terminated with 'last' keyword

Consider the following nested loops:
my %deleted_documents_names = map { $_ => 1 }
$self->{MANUAL}->get_deleted_documents();
while($sth->fetch){
.....
.....
.....
while(my ($key, $value) = each(%deleted_documents_names)){
{
if($document_name eq $key){
$del_status=1;
last;
}
}
if($del_status==1){next;}
.....
.....
.....
.....
}
Now, I take a sample case where three values (A,B,C) will be compared against two values (B,C).
First scan:
A compared to B
A compared to C
Second scan:
B compared to B
Loop is terminated.
Third scan:
C is compared with C.
In this case, C should be compared first with B, being first value, but this comparison is skipped, and it only scans from the next element after the one that was found equal. If I remove last termination condition and let the loop run for total number of scans, then it works all fine, but I need to find out why in this case, $key refers to the next compared value and not to the first value once loop is restarted after getting terminated with last keyword.
Any help will be appreciated.
Use
keys %deleted_documents_names ; # Reset the "each" iterator.
See keys.
But, why are you iterating over the hash? Why don't you just
if (exists $deleted_documents_names{$document_name}) {
each() is a function that returns key-value pairs from a hash until it reaches the end. It is not aware of the scope it was called in, and doesn't know anything about your while loop logic. See the documentation here.
It can be reset by calling keys %hash or values %hash.
Update: however, as Choroba points out, you don't really need this loop. Your loop and accompanying logic could be replaced by this:
next if (exists $deleted_documents_names{$document_name});
(Hashes are designed with a structure that allows a key to be quickly found. In fact, this structure is what gives them the name "hashes". So doing it this way will be much more efficient than looping through all elements and testing each one).

Modifying hash within a hash in Perl

What is the shortest amount of code to modify a hash within a hash in the following instances:
%hash{'a'} = { 1 => one,
2 => two };
(1) Add a new key to the inner hash of 'a' (ex: c => 4 in the inner hash of 'a')
(2) Changing a value in the inner hash (ex: change the value of 1 to 'ONE')
Based on the question, you seem new to perl, so you should look at perldoc perlop among others.
Your %hash keys contain scalar values that are hashrefs. You can dereference using the -> operator, eg, $hashref = {foo=>42}; $hashref->{foo}. Similarly you can do the same with the values in the hash: $hash{a}->{1}. When you chain the indexes, though, there's some syntactic sugar for an implicit -> between them, so you can just do $hash{a}{1} = 'ONE' and so on.
This question probably also will give you some useful leads.
$hash{a}{c} = 4;
$hash{a}{1} = "ONE";