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#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
# $Id: tcsort,v 1.3 2004/08/05 14:24:05 cwest Exp $

use strict;

use vars qw($opt_b $opt_d);
use Getopt::Std;
my $usage = "usage: $0 [-b|-d] [filename]\n";
getopts("bd") or die $usage;
die $usage if ($opt_b && $opt_d);

my %pairs;	# all pairs ($l, $r)
my %npred;	# number of predecessors
my %succ;	# list of successors

while (<>) {
    my ($l, $r) = my @l = split;
    next unless @l == 2;
    next if defined $pairs{$l}{$r};
    $pairs{$l}{$r}++;
    $npred {$l} += 0;
    ++$npred{$r};
    push @{$succ{$l}}, $r;
}

# create a list of nodes without predecessors
my @list = grep {!$npred{$_}} keys %npred;

while (@list) {
    $_ = pop @list;
    print "$_\n";
    foreach my $child (@{$succ{$_}}) {
	if ($opt_b) {	# breadth-first
	    unshift @list, $child unless --$npred{$child};
	} else {	# depth-first (default)
	    push @list, $child unless --$npred{$child};
	}

    }
}

warn "cycle detected\n" if grep {$npred{$_}} keys %npred;

=head1 NAME

tcsort - topological sort

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  tcsort [filename]

=head1 DESCRIPTION

=over 2

Does a topological sort of input pairs.

For a more complete description, see the tsort(1) man page,
For an explanation of the algorithm,
see the I<Work> column in the October, 1998, issue of SunExpert,
or the references given below.

=back

=head1 OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS

=over 8

=item B<[-b|-d]>

breadth-first or depth-first (default) traversal

=item B<filename>

Optional input file.
Input format is pairs of white-space-separated fields,
one pair per line.
Each field is the name of a node.

Output is the topologically sorted list of nodes.

Ignores lines without at least two fields.
Ignores all fields on the line except the first two.

=back

=head1 AUTHOR

  Jeffrey S. Haemer

=head1 SEE ALSO

tsort(1), tcsh(1), tchrist(1)

Algorithm stolen from Jon Bentley (I<More Programming Pearls>, pp. 20-23),
who, in turn, stole it from Don Knuth
(I<Art of Computer Programming, volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms>,
Section 2.2.3)

=cut