How to test, if an element is in a list? - rexx

Is there a built-in function to test, if a given element is in a list in Rexx?
I could not find one. The alternative would be to loop over the list and check each element manually.

No (unless things have changed); just loop through the list.
An alternative is instead / as well have a lookup variable
i.e.
lookup. = 0 /* not all versions of Rexx support
default initialisation like this */
....
addToList:
parse arg item
numberInList = numberInList + 1
list.numberInList = item
lookup.item = 1
return
You can then check if item is in the list by
if lookup.item = 1 then do
......

It depends what you mean by a list.
At work, I use classic REXX. I frequently store lists of words in a single variable, space delimited. So WORDPOS() is the built-in function I use.
If you are using a List class in ooREXX. then why not use the hasItem method from the Collection class.

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coffee script - remove from one array based on second array contents

I have 2 arrays - one has attribute called vcdName and the other has attribute called name. I want to remove from array 1 all entries where I find the value of vcdName in the second array. So:
array one
data...vcdName=a
data...vcdName=b
array two
data...name=a
I want to filter array one and remove the first entry (because vcdName value a is found in array two).
I understand I can use lodash functions and I tried the following. I believeusing is will return me those entries that match and I need to put in filteredArray those entries where no match is found in arraytwo.
filteredArray = _.filter(#arrayone, (vcd) -> vcd.vcdName is #arraytwo)
I hope I have not gotten too confusing. It feels this should be moderately easier than I am making it.
Generically I need to do this
for each entry in arrayone
for each entry in arraytwo
does entry from arrayone.vcdName == arraytwo.name - if yes then I do not want that entry from arrayone
I hope that helps
filter is in js core so I don't see why you'd need to use the lodash function, but anyway you can do it like this:
arraytwo_names = #arraytwo.reduce (dict, entry) ->
dict[entry.name] = true
dict
, {}
results = #arrayone.filter (x) ->
!arraytwo_names[x.vcdName]
The reduce is not strictly speaking necessary, since you could loop through arraytwo each iteration of the filter, but it is an optimization and makes the runtime O(N) and not O(N^2).

document.querySelectorAll get innerText of ALL selected elements at once pure javascript

I want to get all innerText of a whole column of a very long html table (random length).
I'm using this code:
var tbEls = document.querySelectorAll('#tBodyID tr td:nth-child(cidx)');
Where cidx = the column index I want to extract content from.
But such code extracts all the td elements (with the innerText inside them of course).
But it doesn't extract directly all the innerText inside them. Cause of this I have to reprocess the returned tdEls array with a for loop to extract from each tbEls[i] element its own innerText. It works but...
My question is:
In pure JS (no external libraries or frameworks) is it possible to use a more direct approach improving some way just and only the querySelectorAll parameter ('#tBodyID tr td:nth-child(cidx)') to get directly all the td elements innerText at once and in just one javascript statement and without the need of reprocessing the returned array with the for loop or anything else?
In other words is there a some kind of innerText selector that can be used to get them all at once without any kind of extra loop?
No problem at all if it is not recognized by old browsers, I'm sorry for them.
What I hope to achieve is something like:
var arrTblColInnerText = document.querySelectorAll('#tBodyID tr td:nth-child(cidx):alltd:innerText');
I want to get an array similar to:
0: value from column cidx cell 0
1: value from column cidx cell 1
2: value from column cidx cell 2
3: value from column cidx cell 3
...
n: value from column cidx cell n
Thanks in advance.
The easiest way I found was to convert the nodeList to an array first then use a map:
var nodes = document.querySelectorAll("h3 em");
var list = [].slice.call(nodes);
var innertext = list.map(function(e) { return e.innerText; }).join("\n");
Here's a one-liner from 2021. It says to take the NodeList returned from the querySelectorAll and make it an Array, then map the innerText into an array.
Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("h3 em")).map(x => x.innerText)

Scala Performance Issue with mutable List (LinkedList)

I have the following code snippets: The code reads the system (Linux) dictionary(en) file and keeps it in memory List.
Code 1 : (With mutable List)
val word = scala.collection.mutable.LinkedList[String]("init");
for(line <- Source.fromFile("/usr/share/dict/words").getLines()){
val s : String = line.trim()
if( // some checks
){
word append scala.collection.mutable.LinkedList[String](s)
}
}
Code 2 : (With Immutable List)
var word = List[String]()
for(line <- Source.fromFile("/usr/share/dict/words").getLines()){
val s : String = line.trim()
if( // some checks
){
word ::= s
}
}
Code 2 : returns almost immediately , But
Code 1 : Takes for ever .
Can any one help me out , why is it taking so much time for mutable List? . Should we use Mutable at all or Am I doing something wrong?
Scala version used : 2.10.3
Thanks in Advance for your help.
word append scala.collection.mutable.LinkedList[String](s)
Traverse the word list and then at the end append the items from the other list.
word ::= s
Append s at the front of the word list and assign the new list to word variable.
Appending to the end of list is always expensive as compared to add a item to the front.
In the first example, you are adding to the end of a list repeatedly (append). This takes time on the order of the length of the list. In the second example, you are adding to the beginning of a list (::). This takes constant time. So the first example has an execution time that increases with the square of the number of lines in the file, and the second has an execution time that increases linearly with the length of the file.
This is due to the nature of linked lists, which are the data structure underlying both immutable List and mutable LinkedList. linked lists are fast to access at the front and slow to access at the back.

MATLAB assign variable name

I have a variable called 'int' with alot of data in it. I would like to find a way to programically rename this variable with a user input. So I can query the user indentifcation information about the data, say the response is 'AA1', I want either rename the variable 'int' to 'AA1' or make 'AA1' a variable that is identical to int.
A problem using the input command arises because it allows the user to assign a value to an already created varialbe, instead of actually creating a variable name. Would using the eval function, or a variation of it, help me achieve this? Or is there an easier way?
Thanks!
Just for the record, int is a rather poor variable name choice.
That aside, you can do what you want as follows
say foo is the variable that holds a string that the user input. You can do the following:
% eliminate leading/trailing whitespace
foo = strtrim(foo);
a = regexp('[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*',foo));
if numel(a) == 0
fprintf('Sorry, %s is not a valid variable name in matlab\n', foo);
elseif a ~= 1
fprintf('Sorry, %s is not a valid variable name in matlab\n', foo);
elseif 2 == exist(foo,'var')
fprintf('Sorry, %s already in use as a variable name.');
else
eval([foo,' = int']);
end
Assuming int (and now foo) is a structure with field named bar, you can read bar as follows:
barVal = eval([foo,'.bar']);
This is all somewhat clunky.
An alternative approach, that is far less clunky is to use an associative array, and let the user store various values of int in the array. The Matlab approach for associative arrays is Maps. That would be my preferred approach to this problem. Here is an example using the same variables as above.
nameValueMap = containers.Map;
nameValueMap(foo) = int;
The above creates the association between the name stored in foo with the data in the variable int.
To get at the data, you just do the following:
intValue = nameValueMap(foo);

Matlab dynamic fieldnames structure with cell arrays

How can i access the following structure path with dynamic fieldnames:
var = 'refxtree.CaseDefinition.FlowSheetObjects.MaterialStreamObjects{8}.MaterialStreamObjectParams.Pressure.Value.Text';
fields = textscan(var,'%s','Delimiter','.');
refxtree.(fields{:}) does not work because MaterialStreamObjects contains a cell array of which I want to access the 8th cell and then continue down the structure path.
In the end I want to get and set the fieldvalues.
You need to build the appropriate input to subsref, possibly using substruct. Look at the MATLAB help.
You can define an anonymous function to navigate this particular kind of structure of the form top.field1.field2.field3{item}.field4.field5.field6.field7 (as an aside: is it really necessary to have such a complicated structure?).
getField = #(top,fields,item)top.(fields{1}).(fields{2}).(fields{3}){item}.(fields{4}).(fields{5}).(fields{6}).(fields{7})
setField = #(top,fields,item,val)subsasgn(top.(fields{1}).(fields{2}).(fields{3}){item}.(fields{4}).(fields{5}).(fields{6}),struct('type','.','subs',fields{7}),val);
You use the functions by calling
fieldValue = getField(refxtree,fields,8);
setField(refxtree,fields,8,newFieldValue);
Note that fields is required to have seven elements. If you want to generalize the above, you will have to dynamically create the above functions
In this case, it is easier to just use EVAL:
str = 'refxtree.CaseDefinition.FlowSheetObjects.MaterialStreamObjects{8}.MaterialStreamObjectParams.Pressure.Value.Text';
%# get
x = eval(str)
%# set
evalc([str ' = 99']);