Hi
This is my version for solving this. Probably very similar to some of the answers above.
use Modern::Perl;
use Data::Dumper;
#some ranges, for testing purposes.
my @array = (2,3,4,10,11,12,13,20,21,22,34,35,36,37,38);
my $prev = undef;
my @ranges;
my $index = -1;
#Build Array of array.
#One Array ref for each contiguous range
foreach my $val ( sort {$a <=> $b } @array )
{
if (!defined($prev) || $val != $prev +1 )
{
$index++;
$ranges[$index] = [$val];
}
else
{
push @{ $ranges[$index] }, $val;
}
$prev = $val;
}
print Dumper(\@ranges);
#loop though each range (array ref), and get the first and last el
+ement
#for each range
foreach my $a_range (@ranges)
{
say "range: ", $a_range->[0], '..', $a_range->[-1];
}
Output
$VAR1 = [
[
2,
3,
4
],
[
10,
11,
12,
13
],
[
20,
21,
22
],
[
34,
35,
36,
37,
38
]
];
range: 2..4
range: 10..13
range: 20..22
range: 34..38
Cheers.
Arnaud.
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