Bash random number generator where number is not in array - arrays

I am attempting to create a random number generator that generates a number between 1 and 99 but not any number that has already been generated.
In the script array1 contains the numbers already generated. To make it easier to test I have reduced the random number range to 0 - 14 and manually created an array.
I am quite new to bash scripting and am picking it up with a couple of books and the internet.
I have tried a mixture of ideas, the one that seems to make most sense is
array1=( 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 )
func1() {
for var in "${array1[#]}"
do
echo $var
done
}
rnd=$[ $RANDOM % 14 ]
until [ $rnd != func1 ]
do
rnd=$[ $RANDOM % 14 ]
done
echo $rnd
however I know the problem is on line 9 the shell sees the following code:
until [ $rnd != 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ]
I know that the solution is that line 9 needs to be:
until [ $rnd != 1 ] && [ $rnd != 2 ] && [ $rnd != 3 ] && ...
I just don't know how to make this happen automatically from the array. The array does vary in length depending on how many numbers have been generated.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!

This is something that I found difficulty doing in bash. The approach I came up with is to have func1() return true or false and modify the array to remove the number that has been picked.
array=( {1..15} )
func1() {
local pick="$1"
found=1
total=${#array[#]}
for ((i=0;i<total;i++)); do
if (( pick == ${array[i]} )); then
echo $pick
array=( ${array[#]:0:i} ${array[#]:((i + 1)):$total})
found=0
break
fi
done
return $found
}
numbers=3
for ((x=0;x<numbers;x++)); do
until func1 $(( $RANDOM % ( ${#array[#]} ) )); do
continue
done
done

As noted in one of the comments, using the Knuth Shuffle is an excellent way to do this
#!/bin/bash
shuffle() {
local i tmp size max rand
# Code from http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/026
# $RANDOM % (i+1) is biased because of the limited range of $RANDOM
# Compensate by using a range which is a multiple of the array size.
size=${#array[*]}
max=$(( 32768 / size * size ))
for ((i=size-1; i>0; i--)); do
while (( (rand=$RANDOM) >= max )); do :; done
rand=$(( rand % (i+1) ))
tmp=${array[i]} array[i]=${array[rand]} array[rand]=$tmp
done
}
# Fill an array with values 1 to 99
array=({1..99});
# Shuffle the array at random
shuffle
# Echo shuffled array
echo ${array[#]}
Output
$ ./knuth
58 78 6 37 84 79 81 43 50 25 49 56 99 41 26 15 86 11 96 90 76 46 92 70 87 27 33 91 1 2 73 97 65 69 42 32 39 67 72 52 36 64 24 88 60 35 83 89 66 30 4 53 57 28 75 48 40 74 18 23 45 61 20 31 21 16 68 80 62 8 98 14 7 19 47 55 22 85 59 17 77 10 63 93 51 54 95 82 94 9 44 38 13 71 34 29 5 3 12

You can also use the -R switch to sort, if your version of sort supports it:
for x in {1..99} ; do echo $x ; done | sort -R

Related

Why after the while loop I am only getting last row value?

This is the files I am reading,
#Log1
Time Src_id Des_id Address
0 34 56 x9870
2 36 58 x9872
4 38 60 x9874
6 40 62 x9876
8 42 64 x9878
#Log2
Time Src_id Des_id Address
1 35 57 x9871
3 37 59 x9873
5 39 61 x9875
7 41 63 x9877
9 43 65 x9879
This the code I wrote where I am reading line by line and then spliting it
#!usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
my $log1_file = "log1.log";
my $log2_file = "log2.log";
open(IN1, "<$log1_file" ) or die "Could not open file $log1_file: $!";
open(IN2, "<$log2_file" ) or die "Could not open file $log2_file: $!";
my $i_d1;
my $i_d2;
my #fields1;
my #fields2;
while (my $line = <IN1>) {
#fields1 = split " ", $line;
}
while (my $line = <IN2>) {
#fields2 = split " ", $line;
}
print "#fields1\n";
print "#fields2\n";
close IN1;
close IN2;
Output I am getting
8 42 64 x9878
9 43 65 x9879
Output Desired
Time Src_id Des_id Address
0 34 56 x9870
2 36 58 x9872
4 38 60 x9874
6 40 62 x9876
8 42 64 x9878
9 43 65 x9879
Time Src_id Des_id Address
1 35 57 x9871
3 37 59 x9873
5 39 61 x9875
7 41 63 x9877
9 43 65 x9879
If I use push(#fields1 , split " ", $line); I am getting output like this,
Time Src_id Des_id Address 0 34 56 x9870 B 36 58 x9872 D 38 60 x9874 F 40 62 x9876 H 42 64 x9878
It should print whole array but printing just last row?
Also after this I need to compare both the "Times" part of both log & print in sequence way but don't know how to run both array simultaneously in while loop?
Please suggest in standard way without any modules because I need to run this in someone else server.
Following code demonstrates how to read and print log files
(OP does not specify why he splits lines into fields)
use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';
my $fname1 = 'log1.txt';
my $fname2 = 'log2.txt';
my $div = "\t";
my $file1 = read_file($fname1);
my $file2 = read_file($fname2);
print_file($file1,$div);
print_file($file2,$div);
sub read_file {
my $fname = shift;
my #data;
open my $fh, '<', $fname
or die "Couldn't read $fname";
while( <$fh> ) {
chomp;
next if /^#Log/;
push #data, [split];
}
close $fh;
return \#data;
}
sub print_file {
my $data = shift;
my $div = shift;
say join($div,#{$_}) for #{$data};
}
Output
Time Src_id Des_id Address
0 34 56 x9870
2 36 58 x9872
4 38 60 x9874
6 40 62 x9876
8 42 64 x9878
Time Src_id Des_id Address
1 35 57 x9871
3 37 59 x9873
5 39 61 x9875
7 41 63 x9877
9 43 65 x9879
Let's assume that OP wants to merge two files into one with sorted lines on Time field
read files into %data hash with Time field as key
print header (#fields)
print hash values sorted on Time key
use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';
my(#fields,%data);
my $fname1 = 'log1.txt';
my $fname2 = 'log2.txt';
read_data($fname1);
read_data($fname2);
say join("\t",#fields);
say join("\t",#{$data{$_}}) for sort { $a <=> $b } keys %data;
sub read_data {
my $fname = shift;
open my $fh, '<', $fname
or die "Couldn't open $fname";
while( <$fh> ) {
next if /^#Log/;
if( /^Time/ ) {
#fields = split;
} else {
my #line = split;
$data{$line[0]} = \#line;
}
}
close $fh;
}
Output
Time Src_id Des_id Address
0 34 56 x9870
1 35 57 x9871
2 36 58 x9872
3 37 59 x9873
4 38 60 x9874
5 39 61 x9875
6 40 62 x9876
7 41 63 x9877
8 42 64 x9878
9 43 65 x9879
Because #fields* gets overwritten during each loop. You need this:
while(my $line = <IN1>){
my #tmp = split(" ", $line);
push(#fields1, \#tmp);
}
foreach $item (#fields1){
print("#{$item}\n");
}
Then #fields1 contains references pointing to the splited array.
The final #fields1 looks like:
#fields1 = (
<ref> ----> ["0", "34", "56", "x9870"]
<ref> ----> ["2", "36", "58", "x9872"]
...
)
The print will print:
Time Src_id Des_id Address
0 34 56 x9870
2 36 58 x9872
4 38 60 x9874
6 40 62 x9876
8 42 64 x9878
And I guess it would be better if you do chomp($line).
But I'd like to simply do push(#fields1, $line). And split each array item when in comparison stage.
To compare the content of 2 files, I personally would use 2 while loops to read into 2 arrays just like what you have done. Then do the comparison in one for or foreach.
You can merge the log files using paste, and read the resulting merged file one line at a time. This is more elegant and saves RAM. Here is an example of a possible comparison of time1 and time2, writing STDOUT and STDERR into separate files. The example prints into STDOUT all the input fields if time1 < time2 and time1 < 4, otherwise prints a warning into STDERR:
cat > log1.log <<EOF
Time Src_id Des_id Address
0 34 56 x9870
2 36 58 x9872
4 38 60 x9874
6 40 62 x9876
8 42 64 x9878
EOF
cat > log2.log <<EOF
Time Src_id Des_id Address
1 35 57 x9871
3 37 59 x9873
5 39 61 x9875
7 41 63 x9877
9 43 65 x9879
EOF
# Paste files side by side, skip header, read data lines together, compare and print:
paste log1.log log2.log | \
tail -n +2 | \
perl -lane '
BEGIN {
for $file_num (1, 2) { push #col_names, map { "$_$file_num" } qw( time src_id des_id address ) }
}
my %val;
#val{ #col_names } = #F;
if ( $val{time1} < $val{time2} and $val{time1} < 4) {
print join "\t", #val{ #col_names};
} else {
warn "not found: #val{ qw( time1 time2 ) }";
}
' 1>out.tsv 2>out.log
Output:
% cat out.tsv
0 34 56 x9870 1 35 57 x9871
2 36 58 x9872 3 37 59 x9873
% cat out.log
not found: 4 5 at -e line 10, <> line 3.
not found: 6 7 at -e line 10, <> line 4.
not found: 8 9 at -e line 10, <> line 5.
The Perl one-liner uses these command line flags:
-e : Tells Perl to look for code in-line, instead of in a file.
-n : Loop over the input one line at a time, assigning it to $_ by default.
-l : Strip the input line separator ("\n" on *NIX by default) before executing the code in-line, and append it when printing.
-a : Split $_ into array #F on whitespace or on the regex specified in -F option.
SEE ALSO:
perldoc perlrun: how to execute the Perl interpreter: command line switches

2D matrix to 3D matrix with row to [row, col] mapping

I have a 2D matrix with in the 1st dimension different channels, and in the 2nd dimension time samples. I want to rearrange this to a 3D matrix, with in the 1st and 2nd dimension channels, and in the 3rd time samples.
The channels have to mapped according to a certain mapping. Right now I am using a for-loop to do so, but what would be a no-loop solution?
N_samples = 1000;
N_channels = 64;
channel_mapping = reshape(1:64, [8 8]).';
% Results in mapping: (can also be random)
% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
% 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
% 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
% 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
% 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
% 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48
% 49 50 51 52 53 55 55 56
% 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
data = rand(N_channels, N_samples);
data_grid = NaN(8,8, N_samples);
for k = 1:N_samples
tmp = data(:, k);
data_grid(:, :, k) = tmp(channel_mapping);
end
You can do it in one go as follows:
data_grid = reshape(data(channel_mapping, :), 8, 8, []);

SockMerchant Challenge Ruby Array#count not counting?

So, i'm doing a beginners challenge on HackerHank and, a strange behavior of ruby is boggling my mind.
The challenge is: find and count how many pairs there are in the array. (sock pairs)
Here's my code.
n = 100
ar = %w(50 49 38 49 78 36 25 96 10 67 78 58 98 8 53 1 4 7 29 6 59 93 74 3 67 47 12 85 84 40 81 85 89 70 33 66 6 9 13 67 75 42 24 73 49 28 25 5 86 53 10 44 45 35 47 11 81 10 47 16 49 79 52 89 100 36 6 57 96 18 23 71 11 99 95 12 78 19 16 64 23 77 7 19 11 5 81 43 14 27 11 63 57 62 3 56 50 9 13 45)
def sockMerchant(n, ar)
counter = 0
ar.each do |item|
if ar.count(item) >= 2
counter += ar.count(item)/2
ar.delete(item)
end
end
counter
end
print sockMerchant(n, ar)
The problem is, it doesn't count well. after running the function, in it's internal array ar still have countable pairs, and i prove it by running it again.
There's more. If you sort the array, it behaves differently.
it doesnt make sense to me.
you can check the behavior on this link
https://repl.it/repls/HuskyFrighteningNaturallanguage
You're deleting items from a collection while iterating over it - expect bad stuff to happen. In short, don't do that if you don't want to have such problems, see:
> arr = [1,2,1]
# => [1, 2, 1]
> arr.each {|x| puts x; arr.delete(x) }
# 1
# => [2]
We never get the 2 in our iteration.
A simple solution, that is a small variation of your code, could look as follows:
def sock_merchant(ar)
ar.uniq.sum do |item|
ar.count(item) / 2
end
end
Which is basically finding all unique socks, and then counting pairs for each of them.
Note that its complexity is n^2 as for each unique element n of the array, you have to go through the whole array in order to find all elements that are equal to n.
An alternative, first group all socks, then check how many pairs of each type we have:
ar.group_by(&:itself).sum { |k,v| v.size / 2 }
As ar.group_by(&:itself), short for ar.group_by { |x| x.itself } will loop through the array and create a hash looking like this:
{"50"=>["50", "50"], "49"=>["49", "49", "49", "49"], "38"=>["38"], ...}
And by calling sum on it, we'll iterate over it, summing the number of found elements (/2).

Multiple array items appending

This is the reproducible code:
a <- rep(1, 20)
a[c(1, 12, 15)] <- 0
b <- which(a == 0)
set.seed(123)
d <- round(runif(17) * 100)
I would like to append 0s to d to get the following result:
[1] 0 29 79 41 88 94 5 53 89 55 46 0 96 45 0 68 57 10 90 25
that is equal to d after appending 0s to each element which has index equal to b - 1.
I've seen append() accepts just one single "after" value, not more than one.
How could I do?
Please, keep in mind I cannot change the length of d because it is supposed it's the ouput of a quite long function, not a simple random sequence like in this example.
You can use negative subscripting to assign the non-zero elements to a new vector.
D <- numeric(length(c(b,d)))
D[-b] <- d
D
# [1] 0 29 79 41 88 94 5 53 89 55 46 0 96 45 0 68 57 10 90 25

How can i create an array and auto populate the elements in perl

lets say i have an array :
#time = qw(
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
);
but the values 1..50 depend on the size of an array #arr
so instead of declaring #time manually, how can i populate #time with 1 .. #arr, and possibly have other TYPES of elements like TIME in seconds, etc.
This will initialise #time with the values from 1 to $#arr:
#time = (1..$#arr);
I suspect you probably want 0 .. $#arr rather than 1 .. $#arr?
and possibly have other TYPES of elements like TIME in seconds, etc.
I'm not quite sure what you mean here, but you should have a look at map for one convenient way of generating a list of values by transforming another list. That might be what you're after.
#time = 1 .. #arr;
If you want to do something with each number, like multiply them by 2, you can use map:
#time = map { 2 * $_ } 1 .. #arr;

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