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Re^2: Serializing a large objectby daverave (Scribe) |
on Sep 25, 2010 at 19:11 UTC ( [id://861990]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
The ranges are given in biological coordinates, meaning the first coordinate is 1 (0 is illegal) and max_length is a legal coordinate. So, if max_length=10 then our coordinates are in 1..10 (both inclusive). Also note that a range like [2,4] expands to2,3,4 since both start and end are inclusive. This convention always causes some trouble, and most of the time I use to convert the coordinates at the beginning and at the end so I can work with 0-based coordinates. In this case I didn't since it's quite simple, so I'm working with biological coordinates. Anyway, if we now take your example and arbitrarily replace all 0's with 1's we get:
Now, [1,3] returns 5; since only the first two and last three ranges contain it. [1,4] returns 4; since only the first two and last two ranges contain it. I hope it makes sense now
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