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Marshall Lochbaum's online BQN REPL has an interesting(and aesthetically pleasing) method of displaying arrays. Your task is to implement a version with simpler rules.

[2,[3],4,[[[6,[5],7]]]]

becomes:

┌─                                 
· 2 ┌·    4 ┌·                     
    · 3     · ┌·                   
        ┘     · ┌─                 
                · 6 ┌·    7        
                    · 5            
                        ┘          
                            ┘      
                              ┘    
                                ┘  
                                  ┘

Rules for drawing

  • A singleton array has
┌· 
·

as its top left corner.

  • A non-singleton array has
┌─  
·

as its top left corner.

(In the actual BQN, this is used for rank-0, or "unit" arrays)

  • All arrays have

as their bottom right corner.

  • Each element at a certain depth will be displayed at the same depth vertically. For example, 2 and 4 are displayed 1 unit from the top since they are at depth 1.
  • Each further level of nesting depth moves 1 unit down in depth.
  • Numbers next to each other will be separated by a single space.

Other details

  • You may take a ragged numeric array in any way your language supports.
  • The input will only consist of integers and nested arrays containing integers.
  • If your language does not support arrays with depth, you may take a string/other equivalent that your language supports.
  • If your language's codepage does not contain the characters ┌ · ─ ┘, you can count them as 1 byte.
  • This is . Shortest answer in each language wins.
  • Since bacon strips are thin, your code must be thin and small as well.
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  • \$\begingroup\$ Nice challenge, though I feel like "Take a nested array, and 'pull down' elements one line for each depth of nest", with none of the special character requirements, might be the purer form of it. \$\endgroup\$
    – Jonah
    Apr 24, 2021 at 16:27
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    \$\begingroup\$ @Jonah That is a good idea. I'll sandbox it. \$\endgroup\$
    – Razetime
    Apr 24, 2021 at 16:28
  • \$\begingroup\$ I realized you'd still need a way to show arrays ending -- eg, if you had two adjacent nested arrays. That could be printed on the same line though. \$\endgroup\$
    – Jonah
    Apr 25, 2021 at 0:36
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Jonah seems like this is the exact same idea, except upside down. \$\endgroup\$
    – Razetime
    Apr 25, 2021 at 4:42
  • \$\begingroup\$ Yeah it’s too close \$\endgroup\$
    – Jonah
    Apr 25, 2021 at 5:03

1 Answer 1

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Charcoal, 72 bytes

FS≡ι(«⊞υⅉP⌈┌´·↘→⊞υⅉ»)«≔⊕⊟υιM¹⁻ιⅉ┘M⁻ⅉ⊟υ↑¿υ⊞υ⌈⟦ι⊟υ⟧»,«↑≔KD⊕ⅈ←ι§≔ι⊖⌕ι┌¦─↘»ι

Try it online! Link is to verbose version of code. Uses lists rather than arrays because they're easier to input. Explanation:

FS≡ι

Switch over each character of the input as a string.

For a (, ...

⊞υⅉ

... save the vertical position as the top margin, ...

P⌈┌´·↘→

... assume a single-element list, ...

⊞υⅉ

... and save the vertical position again, this time as the bottom margin.

»)«

For a ), ...

≔⊕⊟υι

... get the bottom margin of this list, plus 1, ...

M¹⁻ιⅉ

... move to that row, ...

... close the list, ...

M⁻ⅉ⊟υ↑

... move to and forget the top margin of this list, ...

¿υ⊞υ⌈⟦ι⊟υ⟧

... and update the bottom margin of the containing list if necessary.

»,«

For a ,, ...

↑≔KD⊕ⅈ←ι

... grab the text on the previous row, ...

§≔ι⊖⌕ι┌¦─

... find the and change the character after it to a , ...

... and move to the next column on the original row.

»ι

Otherwise, just output the current character.

Note that the · is in Charcoal's code page (so because it needs to be quoted it ends up costing me two bytes!) but the box-drawing characters are not. They would normally cost three bytes in Charcoal so as I use them four times I have subtracted 8 bytes from Charcoal's calculation.

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