Assign the values from a list to hash elements - perl

In essence, I want to name the elements of a list.
I can do this:
($hash{'foo'}, $hash{'bar'}, $hash{'baz'}) = listmaker;
but that gets rather lengthy if there are very many elements in a list.
Is there a shorter way to only name the hash once? Perhaps some variation on this:
%hash = ("foo" => "abc", "bar" => "def", "baz" => "ghi");
but with the values coming from the function listmaker? I'm envisioning some sort of map incantation.

Use hash slices:
#hash{'foo', 'bar', 'baz'} = listmaker
or
#hash{qw( foo bar baz )} = listmaker

Related

folding with mutable.Map and mutable.Set does not work when using Set.add

I'm just wondering why my grouping of values does not work in the code below. Technically, the Map and Set are both mutable so my add(intValue) should change the set (and indirectly the aggregator map).
import scala.collection.mutable._
val original = Iterator[(String, Int)](
"one" -> 1,
"two" -> 20,
"three" -> 30,
"one" -> 11
)
val folded = original.foldLeft(
Map[String, Set[Int]]().withDefaultValue(Set.empty))
{
case (agg, (strVal, intVal)) =>
//agg += ((strVal, agg(strVal) + intVal)) <-- option 1 works
agg(strVal).add(intVal) // <--- option 2 does not work
agg // <--- option 2 does not work
}
For option 1, the result is as expected ( a grouping of "one" -> Set(1, 11) ...)
For option 2 I get an empty Map.
.withDefaultValue does not add the value to Map.
Use .getOrElseUpdate(strVal, Set.empty).add(intVal) instead.
when you call get(key) on this map with a default value it never adds the key that you passed, from the looks of it, it adds another key something on the lines of a "null key" within the map for all default values, that's why you get the same Set each time you do a get, but its not the value you are looking for.

Scala combination function issue

I have a input file like this:
The Works of Shakespeare, by William Shakespeare
Language: English
and I want to use flatMap with the combinations method to get the K-V pairs per line.
This is what I do:
var pairs = input.flatMap{line =>
line.split("[\\s*$&#/\"'\\,.:;?!\\[\\(){}<>~\\-_]+")
.filter(_.matches("[A-Za-z]+"))
.combinations(2)
.toSeq
.map{ case array => array(0) -> array(1)}
}
I got 17 pairs after this, but missed 2 of them: (by,shakespeare) and (william,shakespeare). I think there might be something wrong with the last word of the first sentence, but I don't know how to solve it, can anyone tell me?
The combinations method will not give duplicates even if the values are in the opposite order. So the values you are missing already appear in the solution in the other order.
This code will create all ordered pairs of words in the text.
for {
line <- input
t <- line.split("""\W+""").tails if t.length > 1
a = t.head
b <- t.tail
} yield a -> b
Here is the description of the tails method:
Iterates over the tails of this traversable collection. The first value will be this traversable collection and the final one will be an empty traversable collection, with the intervening values the results of successive applications of tail.

Check a condition within a foreach in scala

Is there a way to check a condition within a foreach loop in scala. The example is that I want to go through an array of integers and do some arbitrary math on the positive numbers.
val arr = Array(-1,2,3,0,-7,4) //The array
//What I want to do but doesn't work
arr.foreach{if(/*This condition is true*/)
{/*Do some math and print the answer*/}}
//Expected answer for division by six is 0.333333333 \n 0.5 \n 0.666666667
//Which is 2/6, 3/6 and 4/6 respectively as they appear in the array
I know how to do it with a normal for loop and if statement but I want to use this because I want to get away from java.
Thanks
foreach function brings every item in the list/array one by one, you should set it to a variable before to use it.
For example:
arr.foreach( variable_name => {
if(/*This condition is true*/){
/*Do some math and print the answer*/
}
})
The argument to foreach is a function, taking one argument, and returning a Unit. The argument is current element of the list, as it has been pointed out in other answers. You can just give it a name, and reference it as you would any other variable.
arr.foreach { x => if(x > 0) println(x/6.0) }
It is generally better and more idiomatic to split your logic into a chain of simpler "atomic" transformations rather than putting everything into one long function:
arr
.iterator
.filter(_ > 0)
.map(_ / 6.0)
.foreach(println)
The underscore _ above is shorthand for the function argument. You can use it in short functions when you only need to reference the argument once, and a few other conditions are satisfied. The last line doesn't need to pass the argument to println, because println itself is a function, being passed to foreach. I could write it as .foreach(println(_)) or .foreach(x => println(x)), it would do the same thing, but is technically a little different: this form creates an anonymous function like def foo(x: Double) { println(x) } and passes it to foreach as an argument, the way I wrote it originally, just passes println itself as an argument.
Also, note a call to .iterator in the beginning. Everything would work the same way if you take it out. The difference is that iterators are lazy. The way it is written, the code will take first argument from the array, send it through filter, if it returns false, it'll stop, and go back to the second element, if filter returns true, it'll send that element to map, then print it out, then go back, grab the next element etc.
Without .iterator call, it'd work differently: first, it would run the entire array through filter, and create a new array, containing only positive numbers, then, it'd run that new array through map, and create a new one, with the numbers divided by 6, then it'd go through this last array to print out the values. Using .iterator makes it more efficient by avoiding all the intermediate copies.
First, you'll want to use map() instead of foreach() because map() returns a result whereas foreach() does not and can only be used for side effects (which should be avoided when possible).
As has been pointed out, you can filter() before the map(), or you can combine them using collect().
arr.collect{case x if x > 0 => x/6.0}
// res0: Array[Double] = Array(0.3333333333333333, 0.5, 0.6666666666666666)
Use the filter function before using the foreach.
arr.filter(_ > 0).foreach { value => ... }
var list: ListSet[Int] = ListSet(-1, -5, -3, 8, 7, 9, 4, 6, 2, 1, 0)
list.filter(p => p > 5).foreach(f => {
print(f + " ")
})
Output : 8 7 9 6
Just do a filter and a map.
Don't forget that scala consider the array you want as Array[Int], so if you apply /6, you gonna have 0, ensure the cast by add .toDouble
val arr = Array(-1,2,3,0,-7,4)
val res = arr.filter(_>0).map(_.toDouble/6)
res.foreach(println)
Result:
0.3333333333333333
0.5
0.6666666666666666

Combine values with same keys in Scala

I currently have 2 lists List('a','b','a') and List(45,65,12) with many more elements and elements in 2nd list linked to elements in first list by having a key value relationship. I want combine elements with same keys by adding their corresponding values and create a map which should look like Map('a'-> 57,'b'->65) as 57 = 45 + 12.
I have currently implemented it as
val keys = List('a','b','a')
val values = List(45,65,12)
val finalMap:Map(char:Int) =
scala.collection.mutable.Map().withDefaultValue(0)
0 until keys.length map (w => finalMap(keys(w)) += values(w))
I feel that there should be a better way(functional way) of creating the desired map than how I am doing it. How could I improve my code and do the same thing in more functional way?
val m = keys.zip(values).groupBy(_._1).mapValues(l => l.map(_._2).sum)
EDIT: To explain how the code works, zip pairs corresponding elements of two input sequences, so
keys.zip(values) = List((a, 45), (b, 65), (a, 12))
Now you want to group together all the pairs with the same first element. This can be done with groupBy:
keys.zip(values).groupBy(_._1) = Map((a, List((a, 45), (a, 12))), (b, List((b, 65))))
groupBy returns a map whose keys are the type being grouped on, and whose values are a list of the elements in the input sequence with the same key.
The keys of this map are the characters in keys, and the values are a list of associated pair from keys and values. Since the keys are the ones you want in the output map, you only need to transform the values from List[Char, Int] to List[Int].
You can do this by summing the values from the second element of each pair in the list.
You can extract the values from each pair using map e.g.
List((a, 45), (a, 12)).map(_._2) = List(45,12)
Now you can sum these values using sum:
List(45, 12).sum = 57
You can apply this transform to all the values in the map using mapValues to get the result you want.
I was going to +1 Lee's first version, but mapValues is a view, and ell always looks like one to me. Just not to seem petty.
scala> (keys zip values) groupBy (_._1) map { case (k,v) => (k, (v map (_._2)).sum) }
res0: scala.collection.immutable.Map[Char,Int] = Map(b -> 65, a -> 57)
Hey, the answer with fold disappeared. You can't blink on SO, the action is so fast.
I'm going to +1 Lee's typing speed anyway.
Edit: to explain how mapValues is a view:
scala> keys.zip(values).groupBy(_._1).mapValues(l => l.map { v =>
| println("OK mapping")
| v._2
| }.sum)
OK mapping
OK mapping
OK mapping
res2: scala.collection.immutable.Map[Char,Int] = Map(b -> 65, a -> 57)
scala> res2('a') // recomputes
OK mapping
OK mapping
res4: Int = 57
Sometimes that is what you want, but often it is surprising. I think there is a puzzler for it.
You were actually on the right track to a reasonably efficient functional solution. If we just switch to an immutable collection and use a fold on a key-value zip, we get:
( Map[Char,Int]() /: (keys,values).zipped ) ( (m,kv) =>
m + ( kv._1 -> ( m.getOrElse( kv._1, 0 ) + kv._2 ) )
)
Or you could use withDefaultValue 0, as you did, if you want the final map to have that default. Note that .zipped is faster than zip because it doesn't create an intermediate collection. And a groupBy would create a number of other intermediate collections. Of course it may not be worth optimizing, and if it is you could do even better than this, but I wanted to show you that your line of thinking wasn't far off the mark.

Generate immutable collection in one expression

How to fill collection and then add one element to it without using mutable collection or declaring it as var?
In other words how I can use immutable collection in the following code instead of mutable.Buffer?
val values: mutable.Buffer[MyClass] = {
(for (i <- 1 until 10
) yield MyClass(Some(i)).toBuffer
}
values += MyClass(None)
I switched to map, but with for-comprehension this should be the same:
val values = (1 until gridSize.size).map(i => MyClass(Some(i))) ++ Seq(MyClass(None), ...)