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  • J Judah Gabriel Himango

    Sweet! I love these! Is it cheating to use LINQ?

    var list1Allowed = from element in list1
                       where list2.Contains(element)
                       select element;

    var list2ElementsNotInList1 = from element in list2
                                  where !list1.Contains(element)
                                 select element;

    var result = list1Allowed.Concat(list2ElementsNotInList1);

    Alternately, since we're not doing any fabulous let clauses, we could just call the extension methods directly for a more terse syntax:

    var list1Allowed = list1.Where(el => list2.Contains(el));
    var list2ElementsNotInList1 = list2.Where(el => !list1.Contains(el));
    var result = list1Allowed.Concat(list2ElementsNotInList1);

    Nifty! I :heart: LINQ. :)

    Life, family, faith: Give me a visit. From my latest post: "The themes and truths of the Jewish holidays follow God's complete plan for this world. They are the root from which Christianity sprang and the historical reasons the church had for leaving them behind were unsound." Judah Himango

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    Rama Krishna Vavilala
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    Also all these questions are based on real life situations I faced and where I(or some other team member) had to use LINQ to objects.

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      Also all these questions are based on real life situations I faced and where I(or some other team member) had to use LINQ to objects.

      Proud to be a CPHog user

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      Judah Gabriel Himango
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      Hey man, you're preaching to the choir. We've been using our own LINQ-like library for .NET 2 (uglier b/c no extension methods, less type inference), and even there it's been invaluable to us where we have to gather parts of a collection, or parts of objects in a collection.

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      • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

        Back on Popular demand You are given two lists. List 1 contains certain strings in a particular order. List 2 contains all the allowed values in List 1. List 1, however, can contain some elements not in List 2. The objective is to generate a List 3 which will have elements from List 1 in exactly the same order specified in List 1 followed by elements not in List 1 but present in List 2. Any elements not in List 2 should not be included. Example: List 1:

        A,B,C,D

        List 2:

        B,A,X,S,L,D

        Output:

        A,B,D,X,S,L


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        Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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        Simple, how about a hard one? Given a tic-tac-toe board where the board can be represented by a one-dimensional array of chars with 'X' being x, 'Y' being y, and all others being empty such that the top left most square is the 0 index, followed by the middle square on the top row as the 1 index ....

        0 | 1 | 2
        _____________
        3 | 4 | 5
        _____________
        6 | 7 | 8

        Write an algorithm to display the number of winning combination available for each X and O based on the game state when passed an array in under n^2.

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          Simple, how about a hard one? Given a tic-tac-toe board where the board can be represented by a one-dimensional array of chars with 'X' being x, 'Y' being y, and all others being empty such that the top left most square is the 0 index, followed by the middle square on the top row as the 1 index ....

          0 | 1 | 2
          _____________
          3 | 4 | 5
          _____________
          6 | 7 | 8

          Write an algorithm to display the number of winning combination available for each X and O based on the game state when passed an array in under n^2.

          Need a C# Consultant? I'm available.
          Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway

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          Rama Krishna Vavilala
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          Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

          Simple,

          Friday is meant for simple quizzes:)

          Proud to be a CPHog user

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          • E Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

            Simple, how about a hard one? Given a tic-tac-toe board where the board can be represented by a one-dimensional array of chars with 'X' being x, 'Y' being y, and all others being empty such that the top left most square is the 0 index, followed by the middle square on the top row as the 1 index ....

            0 | 1 | 2
            _____________
            3 | 4 | 5
            _____________
            6 | 7 | 8

            Write an algorithm to display the number of winning combination available for each X and O based on the game state when passed an array in under n^2.

            Need a C# Consultant? I'm available.
            Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway

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            leppie
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            Ha! I think I did this in first year uni :) Wow, I did some scary (but still cool) code back then, in C!

            Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

            under n^2.

            What is n suppose to be?

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              Ha! I think I did this in first year uni :) Wow, I did some scary (but still cool) code back then, in C!

              Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

              under n^2.

              What is n suppose to be?

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              That is the efficiency of the algorithm, as in O(n^2) or less. It is a large topic that I cannot explain here.

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              • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                Back on Popular demand You are given two lists. List 1 contains certain strings in a particular order. List 2 contains all the allowed values in List 1. List 1, however, can contain some elements not in List 2. The objective is to generate a List 3 which will have elements from List 1 in exactly the same order specified in List 1 followed by elements not in List 1 but present in List 2. Any elements not in List 2 should not be included. Example: List 1:

                A,B,C,D

                List 2:

                B,A,X,S,L,D

                Output:

                A,B,D,X,S,L


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                var list1 = ['A','B','C','D'];
                var list2 = ['B','A','X','S','L','D'];

                var result = list1.filter(function(i) list2.indexOf(i) >= 0)
                .concat( list2.filter(function(i) list1.indexOf(i) < 0 ) );

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                • E Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

                  That is the efficiency of the algorithm, as in O(n^2) or less. It is a large topic that I cannot explain here.

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                  Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

                  That is the efficiency of the algorithm, as in O(n^2) or less. It is a large topic that I cannot explain here.

                  Jeez. I hope you being sarcastic... :| What is n, the size of the input? Size of the board?

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                    Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

                    That is the efficiency of the algorithm, as in O(n^2) or less. It is a large topic that I cannot explain here.

                    Jeez. I hope you being sarcastic... :| What is n, the size of the input? Size of the board?

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                    IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)

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                    Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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                    your kidding right?

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                      Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

                      That is the efficiency of the algorithm, as in O(n^2) or less. It is a large topic that I cannot explain here.

                      Jeez. I hope you being sarcastic... :| What is n, the size of the input? Size of the board?

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                      IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)

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                      Paul Conrad
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                      :eek:

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                      • J Judah Gabriel Himango

                        Sweet! I love these! Is it cheating to use LINQ?

                        var list1Allowed = from element in list1
                                           where list2.Contains(element)
                                           select element;

                        var list2ElementsNotInList1 = from element in list2
                                                      where !list1.Contains(element)
                                                     select element;

                        var result = list1Allowed.Concat(list2ElementsNotInList1);

                        Alternately, since we're not doing any fabulous let clauses, we could just call the extension methods directly for a more terse syntax:

                        var list1Allowed = list1.Where(el => list2.Contains(el));
                        var list2ElementsNotInList1 = list2.Where(el => !list1.Contains(el));
                        var result = list1Allowed.Concat(list2ElementsNotInList1);

                        Nifty! I :heart: LINQ. :)

                        Life, family, faith: Give me a visit. From my latest post: "The themes and truths of the Jewish holidays follow God's complete plan for this world. They are the root from which Christianity sprang and the historical reasons the church had for leaving them behind were unsound." Judah Himango

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                        Nish Nishant
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                        Judah Himango wrote:

                        var list2ElementsNotInList1 = list2.Where(el => !list1.Contains(el));

                        Hey Judah, I would probably replace that with :

                        var list2ElementsNotInList1 = list2.Except(list1);

                        Regards, Nish


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                        • J Judah Gabriel Himango

                          Sweet! I love these! Is it cheating to use LINQ?

                          var list1Allowed = from element in list1
                                             where list2.Contains(element)
                                             select element;

                          var list2ElementsNotInList1 = from element in list2
                                                        where !list1.Contains(element)
                                                       select element;

                          var result = list1Allowed.Concat(list2ElementsNotInList1);

                          Alternately, since we're not doing any fabulous let clauses, we could just call the extension methods directly for a more terse syntax:

                          var list1Allowed = list1.Where(el => list2.Contains(el));
                          var list2ElementsNotInList1 = list2.Where(el => !list1.Contains(el));
                          var result = list1Allowed.Concat(list2ElementsNotInList1);

                          Nifty! I :heart: LINQ. :)

                          Life, family, faith: Give me a visit. From my latest post: "The themes and truths of the Jewish holidays follow God's complete plan for this world. They are the root from which Christianity sprang and the historical reasons the church had for leaving them behind were unsound." Judah Himango

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                          Nish Nishant
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                          In fact this would be even more straightforward :

                          var result = list1.Intersect(list2).Concat(list2.Except(list1));

                          Regards, Nish


                          Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
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                          • N Nish Nishant

                            In fact this would be even more straightforward :

                            var result = list1.Intersect(list2).Concat(list2.Except(list1));

                            Regards, Nish


                            Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
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                            Shog9 0
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                            :cool:

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                              var list1 = ['A','B','C','D'];
                              var list2 = ['B','A','X','S','L','D'];

                              var result = list1.filter(function(i) list2.indexOf(i) >= 0)
                              .concat( list2.filter(function(i) list1.indexOf(i) < 0 ) );

                              Javascript 1.8 (tested on Firefox 3.0.1)

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                              Nish Nishant
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                              Ah you have a one-liner too I see - in fact the same algorithm as the one in mine.

                              Regards, Nish


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                                :cool:

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                                Nish Nishant
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                                Thank you :-)

                                Regards, Nish


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                                  Ah you have a one-liner too I see - in fact the same algorithm as the one in mine.

                                  Regards, Nish


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                                  Yeah, same algorithm, but more verbose so i split it into two lines.

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                                  • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                                    Back on Popular demand You are given two lists. List 1 contains certain strings in a particular order. List 2 contains all the allowed values in List 1. List 1, however, can contain some elements not in List 2. The objective is to generate a List 3 which will have elements from List 1 in exactly the same order specified in List 1 followed by elements not in List 1 but present in List 2. Any elements not in List 2 should not be included. Example: List 1:

                                    A,B,C,D

                                    List 2:

                                    B,A,X,S,L,D

                                    Output:

                                    A,B,D,X,S,L


                                    Last modified: 10mins after originally posted --

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                                    • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                                      Back on Popular demand You are given two lists. List 1 contains certain strings in a particular order. List 2 contains all the allowed values in List 1. List 1, however, can contain some elements not in List 2. The objective is to generate a List 3 which will have elements from List 1 in exactly the same order specified in List 1 followed by elements not in List 1 but present in List 2. Any elements not in List 2 should not be included. Example: List 1:

                                      A,B,C,D

                                      List 2:

                                      B,A,X,S,L,D

                                      Output:

                                      A,B,D,X,S,L


                                      Last modified: 10mins after originally posted --

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                                      PIEBALDconsult
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                                      I think my Set[^] class/struct was my first article. (It wasn't, but I wrote the class before the others.)

                                      PIEBALD.Types.Set<char> a = new PIEBALD.Types.Set<char> ( 'A' , 'B' , 'C' , 'D' ) ;
                                      PIEBALD.Types.Set<char> b = new PIEBALD.Types.Set<char> ( 'B' , 'A' , 'X' , 'S' , 'L' , 'D' ) ;

                                      foreach ( char c in ( a & b ) + b ) ...

                                      A HashSet didn't preserve the order, and isn't as expressive. X|

                                      System.Collections.Generic.HashSet<char> c = new System.Collections.Generic.HashSet<char> ( a ) ;
                                      System.Collections.Generic.HashSet<char> d = new System.Collections.Generic.HashSet<char> ( b ) ;

                                      System.Collections.Generic.HashSet<char> f = c ;
                                      f.IntersectWith ( d ) ;
                                      f.UnionWith ( d ) ;

                                      foreach ( char e in f )

                                      I've been considering reworking Set to use a HashSet rather than a Dictionary (originally it used a Hashtable).

                                      modified on Friday, August 1, 2008 9:08 PM

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                                        I think my Set[^] class/struct was my first article. (It wasn't, but I wrote the class before the others.)

                                        PIEBALD.Types.Set<char> a = new PIEBALD.Types.Set<char> ( 'A' , 'B' , 'C' , 'D' ) ;
                                        PIEBALD.Types.Set<char> b = new PIEBALD.Types.Set<char> ( 'B' , 'A' , 'X' , 'S' , 'L' , 'D' ) ;

                                        foreach ( char c in ( a & b ) + b ) ...

                                        A HashSet didn't preserve the order, and isn't as expressive. X|

                                        System.Collections.Generic.HashSet<char> c = new System.Collections.Generic.HashSet<char> ( a ) ;
                                        System.Collections.Generic.HashSet<char> d = new System.Collections.Generic.HashSet<char> ( b ) ;

                                        System.Collections.Generic.HashSet<char> f = c ;
                                        f.IntersectWith ( d ) ;
                                        f.UnionWith ( d ) ;

                                        foreach ( char e in f )

                                        I've been considering reworking Set to use a HashSet rather than a Dictionary (originally it used a Hashtable).

                                        modified on Friday, August 1, 2008 9:08 PM

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                                        PIEBALDconsult wrote:

                                        ( a & b ) + b

                                        It took me a while to understand that code:)

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                                        • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                                          PIEBALDconsult wrote:

                                          ( a & b ) + b

                                          It took me a while to understand that code:)

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                                          I had to access my article to figure out what operator I used for intersection. Then found that the order of operations is wrong. :( Ha! a & b | b works as required. I've been looking forward to a good FPQ for ages, I keep trying to think of my own.

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