I am using someones permutation solution in PHP that was given off stack and was wondering if there was a way for me to limit the character count in the string to be a fixed amount? Lets say I want to limit the string length to only 4 characters. To be honest, I'm not sure really whats going on in this formula and was hoping I could modify it, but I would also be interested in a new formula approach as well especially if its faster from another individual. Thanks
ini_set('memory_limit', '1024M');
function permutations(array $elements)
{
if (count($elements) <= 1) {
yield $elements;
} else {
foreach (permutations(array_slice($elements, 1)) as $permutation) {
foreach (range(0, count($elements) - 1) as $i) {
yield array_merge(
array_slice($permutation, 0, $i),
[$elements[0]],
array_slice($permutation, $i)
);
}
}
}
}
$list = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f'];
$newlist = array();
foreach (permutations($list) as $permutation) {
//echo implode(',', $permutation) . PHP_EOL;
array_push($newlist, implode(',', $permutation));
}
echo sizeof($newlist);
Here is an adaptation of the function that allows you to put a limit on the number of characters as second argument.
You need to add an extra parameter to know how many remaining characters are allowed and decrement it on the recursive call :
function permutations(array $elements, $limit)
{
if( $limit == 1 )
{
// No need to go deeper, return a list of all remaining letters
foreach($elements as $element)
yield array($element);
}
foreach($elements as $i => $element)
{
// compute all the permutions, without the elements at index i
$sub_perms = permutations( array_merge(array_slice($elements, 0, $i), array_slice($elements, $i+1)), $limit-1);
// list all the permutations with the currently selected element + all the possible combinations of $limit-1 letters of the others elements
foreach($sub_perms as $sub_perm)
{
yield array_merge(array($element), $sub_perm);
}
}
}
You can then call permutations($list, 2) or permutations($list, 4) to have all the permutations of 2 or 4 characters.
Related
I've been banging my head against this problem for a while. I feel like it should be simple, but I'm having a hard time coming up with a solution.
I'm looking to pre-populate a database, and I need to create SQL statements with some foreign key values. It would be tedious to hand-code them, so naturally I decided to do it in code.
What I want are series of arrays that have values as such:
[1]
[2]
[3]
[1,1]
[1,2]
[1,3]
[2,1]
[2,2]
...
[1,1,1]
[1,1,2]
[1,1,3]
...
[3,1,1]
...
[3,3,3]
I want to specify the number of values in the array, and the numerical value at which it causes the preceeding value to roll over.
In the example I gave above, it would be like generate(3,3), since the maximum number of elements is 3, and the highest value is 3.
How could I write some code that would give me this series of arrays?
This is a recursive function that will generate each of the combinations of the ranges up to the maximum value, with elements in each array from 1 to the number specified:
function generate($elements, $maxvalue) {
if ($elements == 0) return array();
$result = array();
foreach (range(1, $maxvalue) as $el) {
$result[] = array($el);
}
foreach (range(1, $maxvalue) as $el) {
foreach (generate($elements - 1, $maxvalue) as $arr) {
$result[] = array($el, ...$arr);
}
}
return $result;
}
$combs = generate(3, 3);
Output is too long to show here but can be seen in this demo on 3v4l.org
Note for PHP < 7.4, replace
$result[] = array($el, ...$arr);
with
$result[] = array_merge(array($el), $arr);
Here's a version using generators (which may be slightly easier on memory than pure arrays):
function generate(int $elementsCount, int $maxValue, array $current = []): \Generator
{
for ($value = 1; $value <= $maxValue; $value++) {
yield [...$current, $value];
}
if ($elementsCount > 1) {
for ($value = 1; $value <= $maxValue; $value++) {
yield from generate($elementsCount - 1, $maxValue, [...$current, $value]);
}
}
}
Exemple usage + debug/print:
$combinations = generate(3, 3);
print_r(iterator_to_array($combinations, false));
Demo
Say I have an array like this:
$array = array('', '', 'other', '', 'other');
How can I count the number with a given value (in the example blank)?
And do it efficiently? (for about a dozen arrays with hundreds of elements each)
This example times out (over 30 sec):
function without($array) {
$counter = 0;
for($i = 0, $e = count($array); $i < $e; $i++) {
if(empty($array[$i])) {
$counter += 1;
}
}
return $counter;
}
In this case the number of blank elements is 3.
How about using array_count _values to get an array with everything counted for you?
Just an idea, you could use array_keys( $myArray, "" ) using the optional second parameter which specifies a search-value. Then count the result.
$myArray = array( "","","other","","other" );
$length = count( array_keys( $myArray, "" ));
I dont know if this would be faster but it's something to try:
$counter = 0;
foreach($array as $value)
{
if($value === '')
$counter++;
}
echo $counter;
You could also try array_reduce, with a function which would just count the value you are interested in. eg
function is_empty( $v, $w )
{ return empty( $w ) ? ($v + 1) : $v; }
array_reduce( $array, 'is_empty', 0 );
Some benchmarking might tell you if this is faster than array_count_values()
We use array_filter function to find out number of values in array
$array=array('','','other','','other');
$filled_array=array_filter($array);// will return only filled values
$count=count($filled_array);
echo $count;// returns array count
Generally for counting blanks only.
Really depends on use case and speed needed. Personally I like doing things one one line.
Like the chosen response though But you still need a line to extract the data needed though to another variable.
$r = count($x) - count(array_filter($x));
function arrayvaluecount($array) {
$counter = 0;
foreach($array as $val){
list($v)=$val;
if($v){
$counter =$counter+1;
}
}
return $counter;
}
function countarray($array)
{ $count=count($array);
return $count;
}
$test=$array = array('', '', 'other', '', 'other');
echo countarray($test);
I found this here PHP take all combinations
I modified it further to include n number of sets to the given array. However i am not able to figure out how to not get any duplicate numbers in a set. for example
If the output is
1 , 1, 3, 4
then it should remove the extra '1' and give it as
1,3,4
similarly if there are 2 outputs.
1,3,4,5 and 4,5,3,1
then it should remove one of the duplicate set as well.
I tried using array_unique and thought it could solve half of the issue however it gave a memory allocation error.
<?php
function permutations($arr,$n)
{
$res = array();
foreach ($arr as $w)
{
if ($n==1) $res[] = $w;
else
{
$perms = permutations($arr,$n-1);
foreach ($perms as $p)
{
$res[] = $w." ".$p;
}
}
}
return $res;
}
// Your array
$numbers = array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7);
// Get permutation by groups of n elements
for($i=1; $i<8; $i++)
$pe = permutations($numbers,$i);
$pe = array_unique($pe);
// Print it out
print_r($pe);
?>
I have a set of strings, each string has a variable number of segments separated by pipes (|), e.g.:
$string = 'abc|b|ac';
Each segment with more than one char should be expanded into all the possible one char combinations, for 3 segments the following "algorithm" works wonderfully:
$result = array();
$string = explode('|', 'abc|b|ac');
foreach (str_split($string[0]) as $i)
{
foreach (str_split($string[1]) as $j)
{
foreach (str_split($string[2]) as $k)
{
$result[] = implode('|', array($i, $j, $k)); // more...
}
}
}
print_r($result);
Output:
$result = array('a|b|a', 'a|b|c', 'b|b|a', 'b|b|c', 'c|b|a', 'c|b|c');
Obviously, for more than 3 segments the code starts to get extremely messy, since I need to add (and check) more and more inner loops. I tried coming up with a dynamic solution but I can't figure out how to generate the correct combination for all the segments (individually and as a whole). I also looked at some combinatorics source code but I'm unable to combine the different combinations of my segments.
I appreciate if anyone can point me in the right direction.
Recursion to the rescue (you might need to tweak a bit to cover edge cases, but it works):
function explodinator($str) {
$segments = explode('|', $str);
$pieces = array_map('str_split', $segments);
return e_helper($pieces);
}
function e_helper($pieces) {
if (count($pieces) == 1)
return $pieces[0];
$first = array_shift($pieces);
$subs = e_helper($pieces);
foreach($first as $char) {
foreach ($subs as $sub) {
$result[] = $char . '|' . $sub;
}
}
return $result;
}
print_r(explodinator('abc|b|ac'));
Outputs:
Array
(
[0] => a|b|a
[1] => a|b|c
[2] => b|b|a
[3] => b|b|c
[4] => c|b|a
[5] => c|b|c
)
As seen on ideone.
This looks like a job for recursive programming! :P
I first looked at this and thought it was going to be a on-liner (and probably is in perl).
There are other non-recursive ways (enumerate all combinations of indexes into segments then loop through, for example) but I think this is more interesting, and probably 'better'.
$str = explode('|', 'abc|b|ac');
$strlen = count( $str );
$results = array();
function splitAndForeach( $bchar , $oldindex, $tempthread) {
global $strlen, $str, $results;
$temp = $tempthread;
$newindex = $oldindex + 1;
if ( $bchar != '') { array_push($temp, $bchar ); }
if ( $newindex <= $strlen ){
print "starting foreach loop on string '".$str[$newindex-1]."' \n";
foreach(str_split( $str[$newindex - 1] ) as $c) {
print "Going into next depth ($newindex) of recursion on char $c \n";
splitAndForeach( $c , $newindex, $temp);
}
} else {
$found = implode('|', $temp);
print "Array length (max recursion depth) reached, result: $found \n";
array_push( $results, $found );
$temp = $tempthread;
$index = 0;
print "***************** Reset index to 0 *****************\n\n";
}
}
splitAndForeach('', 0, array() );
print "your results: \n";
print_r($results);
You could have two arrays: the alternatives and a current counter.
$alternatives = array(array('a', 'b', 'c'), array('b'), array('a', 'c'));
$counter = array(0, 0, 0);
Then, in a loop, you increment the "last digit" of the counter, and if that is equal to the number of alternatives for that position, you reset that "digit" to zero and increment the "digit" left to it. This works just like counting with decimal numbers.
The string for each step is built by concatenating the $alternatives[$i][$counter[$i]] for each digit.
You are finished when the "first digit" becomes as large as the number of alternatives for that digit.
Example: for the above variables, the counter would get the following values in the steps:
0,0,0
0,0,1
1,0,0 (overflow in the last two digit)
1,0,1
2,0,0 (overflow in the last two digits)
2,0,1
3,0,0 (finished, since the first "digit" has only 3 alternatives)
If I have a PHP array:
$array
With values:
45,41,40,39,37,31
And I have a variable:
$number = 38;
How can I return the value?:
39
Because that is the closest value to 38 (counting up) in the array?
Regards,
taylor
<?php
function closest($array, $number) {
sort($array);
foreach ($array as $a) {
if ($a >= $number) return $a;
}
return end($array); // or return NULL;
}
?>
Here is a high-level process to get the desired results and work for any array data:
Filter the array keeping on values greater than or equal to the target and then select the lowest remaining value. This is the "best" value (which may be "nothing" if all the values were less) -- this is O(n)
Alternatively, sort the data first and see below -- this is O(n lg n) (hopefully)
Now, assuming that the array is sorted ASCENDING, this approach would work:
Loop through the array and find the first element which is larger than or equal to the target -- this is O(n)
And if the array is DESCENDING (as in the post), do as above, but either:
Iterate backwards -- this is O(n)
Sort it ASCENDING first (see fardjad's answer) -- this is O(n lg n) (hopefully)
Iterate forwards but keep a look-behind value (to remember "next highest" if the exact was skipped) -- this is O(n)
Happy coding.
EDIT typo on array_search
Yo... Seems easy enough. Here's a function
<?php
$array = array(45,41,40,39,37,31);
function closest($array, $number){
#does the array already contain the number?
if($i = array_search( $number, $array)) return $i;
#add the number to the array
$array[] = $number;
#sort and refind the number
sort($array);
$i = array_search($number, $array);
#check if there is a number above it
if($i && isset($array[$i+1])) return $array[$i+1];
//alternatively you could return the number itself here, or below it depending on your requirements
return null;
}
to Run echo closest($array, 38);
Here's a smaller function that will also return the closest value. Helpful if you don't want to sort the array (to preserve keys).
function closest($array, $number) {
//does an exact match exist?
if ($i=array_search($number, $array)) return $i;
//find closest
foreach ($array as $match) {
$diff = abs($number-$match); //get absolute value of difference
if (!isset($closeness) || (isset($closeness) && $closeness>$diff)) {
$closeness = $diff;
$closest = $match;
}
}
return $closest;
}
Do a linear scan of each number and update two variables and you'll be done.
Python code (performance is O(N), I don't think it's possible to beat O(N)):
def closestNum(numArray, findNum):
diff = infinity # replace with actual infinity value
closestNum = infinity # can be set to any value
for num in numArray:
if((num - findNum) > 0 and (num - findNum) < diff):
diff = num - findNum
closestNum = num
return closestNum
Please add null checks as appropriate.
If you really want the value that's "closest" in distance, even if it's a lesser value, try this, which #Jason gets most of the credit for.
Imagine a scenario when you want the closest number to 38.9 in the following:
$array = array(37.5, 38.5, 39.5);
Most of the solutions here would give you 39.5, when 38.5 is much closer.
This solution would only take the next highest value if what you're looking is in the exact middle between two numbers in the array:
function nearest_value($value, $array) {
if (array_search($value, $array)) {
return $value;
} else {
$array[] = $value;
sort($array);
$key = array_search($value, $array);
if ($key == 0) { return $array[$key+1]; }
if ($key == sizeof($array)-1) { return $array[$key-1]; }
$dist_to_ceil = $array[$key+1]-$value;
$dist_to_floor = $value-$array[$key-1];
if ($dist_to_ceil <= $dist_to_floor) {
return $array[$key+1];
} else {
return $array[$key-1];
}
}
}
What it lacks in elegance, it makes up for in accuracy. Again, much thanks to #Jason.
Try this simple PHP function:
<?php
function nearest($number, $numbers) {
$output = FALSE;
$number = intval($number);
if (is_array($numbers) && count($numbers) >= 1) {
$NDat = array();
foreach ($numbers as $n)
$NDat[abs($number - $n)] = $n;
ksort($NDat);
$NDat = array_values($NDat);
$output = $NDat[0];
}
return $output;
}
echo nearest(90, array(0, 50, 89, 150, 200, 250));
?>
I made a shorter function for that:
function nearestNumber($num, $array) {
if(!in_array($num, $array)) $array[] = $num;
sort($array);
$idx = array_search($num, $array);
if(($array[$idx] -$array[$idx-1]) >= ($array[$idx+1] -$array[$idx])) return $array[$idx+1];
else return $array[$idx-1];
}
Works great in my case: $array = array(128,160,192,224,256,320); $num = 203 :)
It's taking the nearest number and if there's the same distance between two numbers (like 208 for my example), the next highest number is used.
+1 to Jason.
My implementation below, but not as brisk
$array = array(1,2,4,5,7,8,9);
function closest($array, $number) {
$array = array_flip($array);
if(array_key_exists($number, $array)) return $number;
$array[$number] = true;
sort($array);
$rendered = array_slice($array, $number, 2, true);
$rendered = array_keys($rendered);
if(array_key_exists(1, $rendered)) return $rendered[1];
return false;
}
print_r(closest($array, 3));
You could use array_reduce for this, which makes it more functional programming style:
function closest($needle, $haystack) {
return array_reduce($haystack, function($a, $b) use ($needle) {
return abs($needle-$a) < abs($needle-$b) ? $a : $b;
});
}
For the rest, this follows the same principle as the other O(n) solutions.
Here is my solution.
$array=array(10,56,78,17,30);
$num=65;
$diff=$num;
$min=$num;
foreach($array as $a){
if( abs($a-$num)< $diff ){
$diff=abs($a-$num);
$min=$a;
}
}
echo $min;