Questions tagged [ragged-list]
A ragged list, also called a jagged list, is a list where each element can either be some terminal type (e.g. an integer) or another ragged list.
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Find the dimensions of a ragged list
For any ragged list its dimensions will be a list of non-negative integers defined as follows:
Elements that are not a list will have dimensions \$\textbf{[}\,\,\textbf{]}\$.
An empty list has ...
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Ragged list pattern matching
Given a pattern and a ragged list of positive integers, your task is to decide whether the pattern matches the ragged list.
The pattern is also represented by a ragged list. But in addition to ...
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Recursively rotate a ragged list
Given a ragged list of positive integers return a full cycle of recursive rotations starting with the unchanged input and ending with the state immediately before revisiting the initial state.
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Sort numbers in a ragged list
Given a ragged list, e.g.
[[4, 7], [5, 3, [], [6, [2]]]]
Your challenge is to sort only the numbers in it. For example, with the above, the result would be
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Ragged index of
Your input is a ragged list of positive integers and a positive integer. Your task is to find that positive integer and return it's index, or if the positive integer doesn't exist, indicate it's ...
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Decompress a ragged list
Your input is a ragged list of possibly empty lists of non-negative integers. For example, [[2,0],[[]],[[[],[1],[]],[]]] is a valid input. This input is a "...
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Bracket Depth List
Challenge
Your challenge is simple, calculate the depth of each matching brackets in the given input e.g. (()()(()))->...
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Inverted ragged list
Given a ragged list of positive integers, where the maximum depth is \$d_\text{max}\$, return the same list, except for every element \$e\$, its depth is \$d_\text{max}+1-d_e\$ (where \$d_e\$ is the ...
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Ragged Matrix Indexing
A ragged matrix, is a matrix that has a different number of elements in each row. Your challenge is to write a program in any favorable language to find the indices of all occurrences of target in the ...
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Count count count
Description
You have a list of integers and start counting from the first term to the next and continue from that to the next and so on..
How many times have you counted?
For example given [ 2, 5, 3, ...
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Build a list from a depth map
You will be given as input a non-empty list of positive integers. For example:
[1,2,2,2,1]
You want to produce a ragged list as output which has this as its "...
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Products all the way down
You are probably familiar with the Cartesian product. It takes two lists and creates a list of all pairs that can be made from an element of the first and an element from the second:
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\left[1,2\...
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Array depth of a ragged list
This is not a duplicate of this challenge.
Here by an array, I mean a nested list that is "not ragged", i.e., it is either a list of elements, or a list of arrays of the same shape. For ...
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Minimum depth of a ragged list
As input you will be given a ragged list of positive integers containing at least one integer at some level. For example:
[[],[[1,2,[3]]],[]]
You should output ...
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Make every fixed list
We are to define the idea of a fixed list as follows:
A fixed list is a list of fixed lists.
This definition is recursive so it's useful to look at some examples.
The empty list ...
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Compare shapeless lists
Let's have a ragged list containing no values, only more lists. For example:
[[[],[[]],[],[]],[],[[],[],[]],[]]
And the list will be finite, meaning that ...
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Find the maximum length in a ragged list
Given a ragged list of positive integers find the size of the largest list contained somewhere in it.
For example:
[1,[1,[8,2,[1,2],5,4,9]],2,[],3]
Here the answer ...
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Scan a ragged list
hgl has a "scan" function called sc. What it does in general is a little bit abstract, so we will just talk about one specific way you can use it.
If we ...
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Collect the elements of an array
Add++, the Language of the Month, has the "collect" builtin as BC. Your task is to implement this builtin.
Consider a non-empty array, where each element ...
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Reconstruct a recursively prime-encoded integer
Recursively prime-encoded integers
Consider \$11681169775023850 = 2 \times 5 \times 5 \times 42239 \times 5530987843\$. This isn't a nice prime factorisation, as \$42239\$ and \$5530987843\$ make it ...
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cadaddadadaddddaddddddr - linked list accessing
Create a function (or closest equivalent, or full program) that takes an list of some datatype (your choice) that may be nested and a string (in either order), and generalizes the lisp c[ad]+r ...
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Pad a jagged array to be square
Given a 2-dimensional jagged array and a fill value, pad the array in both dimensions with the fill value to ensure that it is square and not jagged (i.e., all rows are the same length, and that ...
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Decode the Void
A void list is a list that at no level contains any non-list objects. Or if you prefer a recursive definition
The empty list is void
A list containing only other void lists is void
All void lists ...
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Is it true? Ask Jelly!
Background
Inspired by Octave's (and, by extension, MATL's) very convenient interpretation of truthy/falsy matrices, Jelly got the Ȧ (Octave-style all) atom.
Ȧ takes an array as input and returns 1 ...
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Find the "Recursive Size" of a List
Inspired by Find the “unwrapped size” of a list.
Define the Recursive Size, RS, of a list containing no lists as its length (number of items contained) and the ...
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Build a nest
The challenge is simple: write a program or function that, when given a finite non-negative integer, outputs a nested array.
The rules
Your code must produce a unique valid nested array for every ...
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Flatten the Array!
In this challenge, your task is to create a program which takes in a nested array and returns a single-dimensional flattened array. For Example [10,20,[30,[40]],50] ...
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Reverse an N-Dimensional array
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Write a function or program that, given an array (or list), containing only integers, returns or output an array with all sub-elements reversed. That is, reverse all elements of the deepest ...
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Determine the depth of an array
A simple challenge for your Monday evening (well, or Tuesday morning in the other half of the world...)
You're given as input a nested, potentially ragged array of positive integers:
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Unflatten an Array
This challenge was inspired by a question on Mathematica.SE.
Say you've got a nested list/array of some arbitrary structure (the lists at each level don't necessarily have the same length). For ...
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