NAME

 List::EvenMoreUtils - Array manipulation functions

SYNOPSIS

 use List::EvenMoreUtils qw(partial_ordering_differs);
 use List::EvenMoreUtils qw(list_difference_position);
 use List::EvenMoreUtils qw(keys_to_regex);
 use List::EvenMoreUtils qw(list_to_text);
 use List::EvenMoreUtils qw(initial_sublist_match);
 use List::EvenMoreUtils qw(longer_list);
 use List::EvenMoreUtils qw(repeatable_list_shuffler);

 $difference = partial_ordering_differs( 
        name_of_list1 => \@list1, 
        name_of_list2 => \@list2,
 )
 

 $diffpos = list_difference_position(@list1, @list2);

 $regex = keys_to_regex(%hash);

 printf "We gave apples to %s.\n", list_to_text(@people);

 print "unequal\n" if initial_sublist_match(@list1, @list2);

 $longer = longer_list(@list1, @list2);

FUNCTIONS

do_sublist(&selector,&actor,@list)

Use &selector on each item of @list to group the items into sublists. Call &actor on each sublist.

 @urls = (qw(
        http://foo.com/ 
        http://foo.com/xy/
        http://bar.com/xy/
 ));
 do_sublist(
        sub {
                m{^http://([^/]+)};
                return $1;
        },
        sub {
                my $u = $_[0];
                $u =~ m{^(http://([^/]+))};
                print "paths for $2 = ".join(" ", map { substr($_, length($1)) } @_)."\n";
        },
        @urls
 )

keys_to_regex(%hash)

Returns a regex that matches the keys of the hash. This isn't really a list utility, so I hope you'll forgive me.

 %x = (
        Hope => 1,
        April => 7,
        Jane => 8,
 );
 my $re = keys_to_regex(%hash);
 print "match\n" if $name =~ /^$re$/;

list_to_text

This add commas and and to lists to make them parse well in English.

 print list_to_text("Jane", "Ellen");

Gives you:

 Jane and Ellen

partial_ordering_differs

Given multiple lists, make sure that to the extent they have the same elements, the elements are in the same order in all the lists.

If all the lists have the same ordering of their elements, then the return value is undef. If there is a difference in ordering, then the return value is an English description of the difference. For example:

 Item 'Fred' in list1 needs to come after 'Jane' since it does so in list2.

list_difference_position

Compare two lists. Report the 1-based index position where the lists are first different from each other.

Returns undef if the lists are identical.

If one list is the start of the other list, returns the size of the smaller of the two lists + 1.

initial_sublist_match

Compare two lists. If the two lists have the same number of elements, compare them. Returns 1 if they are the same. If one of the lists is shorter than the other, then compare the shorter list to a sublist of the longer list that matches the shorter's length. If they're the same, returns 1. Otherwise returns 0.

longer_list

Compare two lists. Return a reference to the longer list.

LICENSE

This package may be used and redistributed under the terms of either the Artistic 2.0 or LGPL 2.1 license.