RE: Sort into chain
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- Subject: [mg45642] RE: [mg45605] Sort into chain
- From: "Wolf, Hartmut" <Hartmut.Wolf at t-systems.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 19:57:53 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
>-----Original Message----- >From: Goyder Dr HGD [mailto:h.g.d.goyder at cranfield.ac.uk] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:05 PM >To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >Subject: [mg45642] [mg45605] Sort into chain > > >Dear Mathgroup, > >How do I sort a list of pairs, for example, > >a = {{3, 1}, {2, 6}, {7, 3}, {8, 7}, {10, 8}, {6, 11}, >{12, 10}, {11, 14}, {15, 12}, {14, 18}, {19, 15}, >{18, 20}, {20, 19}, {1, 2}}; > > >Into a list where the second entry in each pair is the same as >the first >entry in the next pair. Thus the effect of the sort will give > >{{18, 20}, {20, 19}, {19, 15}, {15, 12}, >{12, 10}, {10, 8}, {8, 7}, {7, 3}, {3, 1}, >{1, 2}, {2, 6}, {6, 11}, {11, 14}, {14, 18}} > >The first pair is not important because the pairs form a >circular chain. > >I have tried > >Sort[a, (#1[[2]] == #2[[1]]) &] > >but the answer is > >{{1, 2}, {20, 19}, {14, 18}, {18, 20}, {19, 15}, >{15, 12}, {6, 11}, {11, 14}, {12, 10}, {10, 8}, >{8, 7}, {7, 3}, {2, 6}, {3, 1}} > >which has a few correct entries but is not finished. I wondered if the >difficulty was due to the circular nature of the chain but if >you break the >chain by dropping one pair it still does not work. > >Thanks for any assistance > >Hugh Goyder > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by the Cranfield MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. > Using the porperties your data obviously have (from your example): In[14]:= start = -3; In[15]:= Block[{s}, Scan[(s[#[[1]]] = #) &, a]; NestList[s[#[[-1]]] &, a[[start]], Length[a] - 1]] Out[15]= {{18, 20}, {20, 19}, {19, 15}, {15, 12}, {12, 10}, {10, 8}, {8, 7}, {7, 3}, {3, 1}, {1, 2}, {2, 6}, {6, 11}, {11, 14}, {14, 18}} Of course you may start from where you want. -- Hartmut Wolf