Re: Graph in a terminal (ASCII - art)

[VinsWorldcom]

How about Graph::Easy?

use Graph::Easy;
my $graph = Graph::Easy->new();
# I think I got all the edges added below?
$graph->add_edge(1,2);
$graph->add_edge(2,5);
$graph->add_edge(5,6);
$graph->add_edge(6,7);
$graph->add_edge(7,8);
$graph->add_edge(8,9);
$graph->add_edge(9,11);
$graph->add_edge(8,10);
$graph->add_edge(10,11);
$graph->add_edge(1,4);
$graph->add_edge(4,5);
$graph->add_edge(1,3);
$graph->add_edge(3,5);
$graph->add_edge(1,7);
print $graph->as_ascii;

Output:

  +-----------------------------+
  |                             |
  |                             |
  |         +-------------------+-------------------+
  |         |                   v                   v
+---+     +---+     +---+     +---+     +---+     +---+     +---+     
++----+     +----+
| 4 | <-- |   | --> | 2 | --> | 5 | --> | 6 | --> | 7 | --> | 8 | --> 
+| 10 | --> | 11 |
+---+     |   |     +---+     +---+     +---+     +---+     +---+     
++----+     +----+
          |   |       ^         ^                             |       
+             ^
          | 1 | ------+         |                             |       
+             |
          |   |                 |                             v       
+             |
          |   |                 |                           +---+     
+             |
          |   |                 |                           | 9 | ----
+-------------+
          +---+                 |                           +---+
            |                   |
            |                   |
            v                   |
          +---+                 |
          | 3 | ----------------+
          +---+

UPDATE: Note Graph::Easy only *displays* graphs, it doesn't analyze them. To do graph analysis, you'll need Graph. Of course they use different object constructions, but fear not, Graph::Convert converts wonderfully between the two, so you can create, analyze and display graphs with these three modules (Graph, Graph::Easy, Graph::Convert) and they all depend on core modules - so no dependency spiral.

[johngg]

Thanks for the pointer the Graph::Easy, I'd not seen that before so just installed it. I'd already created a hash of edges from an AoA of the events but had no idea how to turn them into a graph as I don't have a computer science background. Once I had the module I initialised a graph and added the edges from the hash and printed the result. My output differs from yours in that you have two 1 -> 2 edges where I only have one. Reading the module documentation it may be that you did $graph->add_edge(1,2) twice, although it only appears once in the code you posted.

use strict;
use warnings;

use 5.022;

use Graph::Easy;
say qq{Using Graph::Easy version $Graph::Easy::VERSION};

my @events = (
   [ 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 ],
   [ 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 ],
   [ 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 ],
   [ 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 ],
   [ 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 ],
   [ 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 ],
   [ 1, 7, 8, 10, 11 ],
   );

my %edges;
foreach my $event ( @events )
{
    foreach my $idx ( 1 .. $#{ $event } )
    {
        $edges{ join q{ -> }, $event->[ $idx - 1 ], $event->[ $idx ] }
+ ++;
    }
}

say for
   map { unpack q{x8a*} }
   sort
   map { pack q{NNa*}, split( m{ -> } ), $_ }
   keys %edges;

my $graph = Graph::Easy->new();
$graph->add_edge( split m{ -> } ) for keys %edges;

print $graph->as_ascii();

The output.

Using Graph::Easy version 0.76
1 -> 2
1 -> 3
1 -> 4
1 -> 7
2 -> 5
3 -> 5
4 -> 5
5 -> 6
6 -> 7
7 -> 8
8 -> 9
8 -> 10
9 -> 11
10 -> 11

  +-----------------------------+
  |                             |
  |                             |
  |         +-------------------+-------------------+
  |         |                   v                   v
+---+     +---+     +---+     +---+     +---+     +---+     +---+     
++----+     +----+
| 4 | <-- | 1 | --> | 2 | --> | 5 | --> | 6 | --> | 7 | --> | 8 | --> 
+| 10 | --> | 11 |
+---+     +---+     +---+     +---+     +---+     +---+     +---+     
++----+     +----+
            |                   ^                             |       
+             ^
            |                   |                             |       
+             |
            v                   |                             v       
+             |
          +---+                 |                           +---+     
+             |
          | 3 | ----------------+                           | 9 | ----
+-------------+
          +---+                                             +---+

If I change the graphing code to this I get output that matches yours.

...
my $graph = Graph::Easy->new();
$graph->add_edge( split m{ -> } ) for keys %edges;
$graph->add_edge( 1, 2 );

print $graph->as_ascii();

I hope this is of interest.

[jahero]

Beauty of Graph::Easy is that it plays well with Graphviz.