Re: I need help with some recursion

[tobyink]

To do recursion you really need to do your work in a function. That way, the function can call itself - recurse.

Right now the only function you have is a small helper, uniq and you're not doing the bulk of your work in a function.

Anyway, here's how I'd do it...

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

# Read the data from the file...
#
my @lines = map { chomp; [split] } <DATA>;

# Arrays are indexed from 0, but we want to count lines
# from 1, so let's unshift a dummy 0 entry onto the array.
#
unshift @lines, undef;

# This is a more usual way of implementing "uniq". It
# preserves the original input order.
#
sub uniq
{
    my %seen;
    grep { not $seen{$_}++ } @_;
}

# This is the function that does most of the work. It
# calculates what graph theorists would call a "closure"
# over the graph of line references.
# 
sub line_closure
{
    # We're given an input list, which is a set of
    # lines already in the closure.
    #
    my @input  = @_;

    # Extend the list by looping through @input to
    # generate the output.
    #
    my @output = uniq map {
        # if the line referred to exists
        $lines[$_]
            # then add the numbers from that
            # line
            ? ($_, @{$lines[$_]})
            # otherwise, just keep the existing
            # number
            : ($_)
    } @input;
    
    # If the two lists match (and because we're only
    # ever adding to the list, checking the list
    # lengths is sufficient), then we've found the
    # closure, so return it.
    #
    if (@output == @input)
    {
        return @output;
    }
    
    # Otherwise, calculate the closure on the expanded
    # list.
    #
    return line_closure(@output);
}

# Get the closure starting at line 1.
#
my @results = line_closure(1);

print Dumper \@results;

__DATA__
1 2 4 
2 3 4
3 7
4 6
5 10 11 12 13
6
7 1

[ragnarokPP]

It is perfect, simple. But if i applied it for all the lines the result will be:

1,2,4,3,6,7
2,3,4,7,6,1
3,7,1,2,4,6
4,6
5,10,11,12,13
6
7,1,2,4,3,6

but i am looking for something like this:

1,2,4,3,6,7
5,10,11,12,13

[tobyink]

So don't apply it to all the lines. This seems to produce something close to your desired output:

my %seen;
for (my $i = 1; $i < @lines; $i++)
{
    next if $seen{$i};
    my @results = line_closure($i);
    print Dumper \@results;
    $seen{$_}++ for @results;
}

[ragnarokPP]

it seems work perfect. thank you very much.

[ragnarokPP]

thank you very much