Re: An exploration of higher-level-language approaches to the "First all-zero row in an NxN matrix" problem (goto Considered Harmful)

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This seems to work as well:

use Modern::Perl;

my @array = (
    [ qw/ 1 1 1 1 1 / ],
    [ qw/ 0 1 1 0 0 / ],
    [ qw/ 0 0 0 0 1 / ],
    [ qw/ 0 0 0 0 0 / ],
    [ qw/ 0 1 0 1 0 / ],
);

my $rownumber = 0;
for my $row (@array) {
    do {say "row $rownumber has all zeroes"; last} unless (join '', @$
+row)+0;
    $rownumber++
}
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Re^2: An exploration of higher-level-language approaches to the "First all-zero row in an NxN matrix" problem (goto Considered Harmful) by davido (Cardinal) on Sep 24, 2011 at 20:18 UTC
I like that because it only does one comparison per row. I considered a join approach too, but had two concerns. First, while it works in the specific case, if the NxN matrix held more complex strings, it could fail, so I saw it as not general enough to a broader application of the problem. Nevertheless, the problem itself is specific, and your version works great. The other concern is that it lacks the optimization of failing as soon as the first non-zero entry is found on a given row. By joining the row, we're already implicitly touching the entire row. On the other hand, it does have the merit of only doing one comparison per row, which is nice. The shortcoming is that it has to join the entire row even if the first element of the row would result in a rejected row. Fun! Dave	[reply]
Re^2: An exploration of higher-level-language approaches to the "First all-zero row in an NxN matrix" problem (goto Considered Harmful) by moritz (Cardinal) on Sep 24, 2011 at 20:24 UTC
That's slightly dangerous, because it doesn't work with all possible number formats. An entry of `0e0` (which is a valid zero) causes the comparison to disregard all non-zeros after it, as does two 0.0s (though it warns). Of course if one knows that the entries are always exactly `0` or `1`, it's quite an elegant solution. Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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