Re: Counting Runs
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg51919] Re: Counting Runs
- From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:17:12 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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Hi, v={1,1,1,-1,1,1,1,1,1,-1,-1,-1,-1,1} Length /@ Split[Sort[First /@ Split[v]]] gives you {2,3} Regards Jens "Gregory Lypny" <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:cmclmu$i99$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Looking for an elegant way to count runs to numbers in a series. > Suppose I have a list of ones and negative ones such as > v={1,1,1,-1,1,1,1,1,1,-1,-1,-1,-1,1}. > I'd like to create a function that counts the number of runs of 1s and > -1s, which in this case is 3 and 2. > > Greg >