Re: How to unflatten an array ?
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- Subject: [mg112811] Re: How to unflatten an array ?
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 05:42:34 -0400 (EDT)
unflatten[arr : {{_, _, _} ..}] := SplitBy[{Most[#], Last[#]} & /@ arr, #[[1, 1]] &] a1 = {{{{1, 0}, 1}, {{1, 1}, 1}, {{1, 2}, 3}}, {{{2, 0}, 5}, {{2, 1}, 0}, {{2, 2}, 0}}, {{{3, 0}, 4}, {{3, 1}, 5}, {{3, 2}, 2}}, {{{5, 0}, 1}, {{5, 1}, 3}, {{5, 2}, 2}}}; a2 = Flatten /@ Flatten[a1, 1]; a1 == unflatten@a2 True Bob Hanlon ---- Valeri Astanoff <astanoff at gmail.com> wrote: ============= Good day, Suppose I have a flat array like this : {{1, 0, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 2, 3}, {2, 0, 5}... and I want to get back to this "unflattened" form : {{{{1, 0}, 1}, {{1, 1}, 1}, {{1, 2}, 3}}, {{{2, 0}, 5}... What is the most efficient way to do it ? All I have found is this : In[1]:= unflatten[arr : {{_, _, _} ..}] := Module[{f}, Scan[(f[#[[1]], #[[2]]] = #[[3]]) &, arr]; Table[{{x, y}, f[x, y]}, {x, arr[[All, 1]] // Union}, {y, arr[[All, 2]] // Union}] ]; In[2]:= a1 = {{{{1, 0}, 1}, {{1, 1}, 1}, {{1, 2}, 3}}, {{{2, 0}, 5}, {{2, 1}, 0}, {{2, 2}, 0}}, {{{3, 0}, 4}, {{3, 1}, 5}, {{3, 2}, 2}}, {{{5, 0}, 1}, {{5, 1}, 3}, {{5, 2}, 2}}}; In[3]:= a2 = Flatten /@ Flatten[a1, 1] Out[3]= {{1, 0, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 2, 3}, {2, 0, 5}, {2, 1, 0}, {2, 2, 0}, {3, 0, 4}, {3, 1, 5}, {3, 2, 2}, {5, 0, 1}, {5, 1, 3}, {5, 2, 2}} In[4]:= a3 = unflatten@a2 Out[4]= {{{{1, 0}, 1}, {{1, 1}, 1}, {{1, 2}, 3}}, {{{2, 0}, 5}, {{2, 1}, 0}, {{2, 2}, 0}}, {{{3, 0}, 4}, {{3, 1}, 5}, {{3, 2}, 2}}, {{{5, 0}, 1}, {{5, 1}, 3}, {{5, 2}, 2}}} In[5]:= a1 == a3 Out[5]= True Please help me to something faster for large arrays. -- Valeri Astanoff