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Re: How to unflatten an array ?

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  • Subject: [mg112814] Re: How to unflatten an array ?
  • From: Ray Koopman <koopman at sfu.ca>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 05:43:07 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sep 30, 1:53 am, Valeri Astanoff <astan... 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

Partition[{Most@#,Last@#}&/@a2, 3]


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