I need to produce such array :
root = [“22”, “friend 22”, [“11”, “contact 11”, [ ] ] , [“13”,
“contact 13”], [“17”, “contact 17”]]
writing
root[0] = friend.id_to_s
root[1] = friend.pseudo
then for each friend.contact , I write an array
friend_array[0] = contact.id.to_s
friend_array[1] = contact.pseudo
… then I would like to write
friend_array[2] = [ ] if contact.info.count > 0
… I need to write an empty array in this case… (otherwise there is
no friend_array[2] )
how can I write it ?
tfyl
joss
Josselin wrote:
I need to produce such array :
root = [“22”, “friend 22”, [“11”, “contact 11”, [ ] ] , [“13”,
“contact 13”], [“17”, “contact 17”]]
writing
root[0] = friend.id_to_s
root[1] = friend.pseudo
then for each friend.contact , I write an array
friend_array[0] = contact.id.to_s
friend_array[1] = contact.pseudo
… then I would like to write
friend_array[2] = [�] if contact.info.count > 0
… I need to write an empty array in this case… (otherwise there is
no friend_array[2] )
how can I write it ?
tfyl
joss
Either recursively or iteratively with a stack.
def append_friends(append_to, friends)
friends.each { |contact|
as_array = [contact.id.to_s, contact.pseudo, []]
append_friends(as_array[2], contact.friends)
append_to[2] << as_array
}
append_to
end
There are probably nicer ways to write the recursive variant. Feel free
to evolve it.
Iterative version is left as an exercise to the reader 
(with ruby
the iterative variant of this
is most probably quite a bit faster btw.)
My regards
On 2007-02-17 17:09:32 +0100, Stefan R. [email protected] said:
then for each friend.contact , I write an array
end
There are probably nicer ways to write the recursive variant. Feel free
to evolve it.
Iterative version is left as an exercise to the reader 
(with ruby
the iterative variant of this
is most probably quite a bit faster btw.)
My regards
thanks a lot ! that’s great… I’ll try to find a recursive variant
later…
joss
Josselin wrote:
On 2007-02-17 17:09:32 +0100, Stefan R. [email protected] said:
then for each friend.contact , I write an array
end
There are probably nicer ways to write the recursive variant. Feel free
to evolve it.
Iterative version is left as an exercise to the reader (with ruby
the iterative variant of this
is most probably quite a bit faster btw.)
My regards
thanks a lot ! that’s great… I’ll try to find a recursive variant
later…
joss
Seems to be a misunderstanding. The one I provided code for is the
recursive variant. In this case I found it easier to write and think it
is easier to understand than the iterative version.
My regards
On 2007-02-17 20:11:12 +0100, Stefan R. [email protected] said:
Iterative version is left as an exercise to the reader (with ruby
Seems to be a misunderstanding. The one I provided code for is the
recursive variant. In this case I found it easier to write and think it
is easier to understand than the iterative version.
My regards
got it… it runs very well