Input:
['a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'e']
Desired output:
['aaa', 'bb', 'ccc', 'd', 'ee']
Is this possible?
Edit: I forgot to mention that my previous attempt (for another example) failed, and I cannot figure out why:
let newArr = []
let last
let current
for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i ++) {
last = last || isCurrencyArr[i]
current = isCurrencyArr[i]
let str = ''
if (last === current) {
str += arr[i]
} else {
newArr.push(str)
str = ''
}
last = isCurrencyArr[i]
}
Your example has a few hiccups. It redeclares str inside each iteration, therefore it only ever pushes empty strings. Also, it pushes the previous string when it comes across a new item, but it doesn't account for scenarios where the last items are the same, as in your example with the letter e.
If you're joining alike elements together, regardless of position...
Instead, you could use reduce() and spread syntax for object literals to build an object that keeps track of the occurrences of each item.
The object after reduce() looks like this:
{ a: "aaa", b: "bb", c: "ccc", d: "d", e: "ee" }
Once that object is built, all we have to do is create an array from the values using Object.values().
const arr = ['a', 'b', 'a', 'c', 'b', 'a', 'e', 'd', 'c', 'e', 'c'];
let items = arr.reduce((acc,i) => acc[i] ? {...acc, [i]: acc[i]+i } : {...acc, [i]: i }, {});
let result = Object.values(items);
console.log(result);
If you only want to join adjacent alike elements...
The example below uses a slightly similar approach to the above, however this reduce() outputs a string. The logic is similar to your own example: if the previous item is the same, add it to a string. If it is not, separate it and keep going.
The result is something like this: aaa|bb|ccc|d|ee. To turn that into an array, we just need to do split("|").
const arr = ['a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'e'];
let result = arr
.reduce((acc,i,idx,a) => (a[idx-1] === i || idx===0) ? acc+i : acc+"|"+i, "")
.split("|");
console.log(result);
This can be a solution to join adjacent elements:
const arr = ['a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'e'];
const resp = arr.reduce((a, e) => {
if(a.length === 0) return a.concat(e);
if(e === a[a.length - 1].split('').reverse()[0]) {
a[a.length - 1] = a[a.length - 1].split('').concat(e).join('');
return a;
}
return a.concat(e);
}, [])
console.log(resp);
Something like this should work:
function simplify(arr) {
let current = arr[0];
let final_arr = [];
let accumulated = current;
for (let i = 1; i < arr.length; i += 1) {
if (current === arr[i]) {
accumulated += arr[i];
} else {
final_arr.push(accumulated)
current = arr[i];
accumulated = current;
}
}
final_arr.push(accumulated);
return final_arr;
}
Using Array#reduce, spread syntax, and Map.
const data = ['a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'e'];
const res = [...data.reduce((a,c)=>{
return a.set(c, (a.get(c)||"") + c);
}, new Map()).values()];
console.log(res);
Algo for strictly adjacent elements.
const data = ['a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'e'];
const res = [];
for(let i = 0; i < data.length; i++){
const c = data[i];
let str = c;
for(let j = i + 1; j < data.length && c === data[j]; j++,i++){
str += c;
}
res.push(str);
}
console.log(res);
I have 2 arrays. I am trying to return the similar values between the 2 but in the order of the second. For example, take a look at the two arrays:
array1 = ['a', 'b', 'c']
array2 = ['b', 'c', 'a', 'd']
What I would like to return is this:
sim = ['b', 'c', 'a']
Here is a link to what I am trying to accomplish. Currently the script is faulty and not catching the corner case.
You could use a Set for array1 use Array#filter array2 by checking the set.
var array1 = ['a', 'b', 'c'],
array2 = ['b', 'c', 'a', 'd'],
theSet = new Set(array1),
result = array2.filter(v => theSet.has(v));
console.log(result);
Some annotations to your code:
function arr_sim (a1, a2) {
var //a = {}, // take an object as hash table, better
a = Object.create(null), // a really empty object without prototypes
sim = [],
i; // use single declaration at top
for (i = 0; i < a1.length; i++) { // iterate all item of array 1
a[a1[i]] = true;
}
for (var i = 0; i < a2.length; i++) {
if (a[a2[i]]) {
sim.push(a2[i]); // just push the value
}
}
return sim;
}
console.log(arr_sim(['a', 'b', 'c'], ['b', 'c', 'a', 'd']));
You can iterate array2 with a filter, and check if the value is contained in array1:
let array1 = ['a', 'b', 'c'];
let array2 = ['b', 'c', 'a', 'd'];
let sim = array2.filter((entry) => {
return array1.includes(entry);
});
console.log(sim);
I think this is what you are looking for?
function arr_sim (a1, a2) {
a1 = Array.isArray(a1)?a1:typeof a1 == "string"?a1.split(""):false;
a2 = Array.isArray(a2)?a1:typeof a2 == "string"?a2.split(""):false;
if(!a1 || !a2){
alert("Not valid values");
return;
}
var filterArray = a1.filter(function(val){
return a2.indexOf(val) !== -1;
})
return filterArray;
}
console.log(arr_sim(['a', 'b'], ['b', 'a', 'c', 'd']));
console.log(arr_sim("abcd", "abcde"));
console.log(arr_sim("cxz", "zcx"));
Try this
const arr_sim = (a1, a2) => a2.filter(a => a1.includes(a))
console.log(arr_sim(['a', 'b', 'c'], ['b', 'c', 'a', 'd']));
try this example here similar-values betwe
en two arrays
var a1 = ['a' ,'b'];
var a2 = ['a' ,'b' ,'c'];
var result = arr_sim(a1,a2);// call method arr_sim
console.log(result);
function arr_sim (a1, a2) {
var similar = [];
for( var i = 0 ; i <a1.length ; i++ ){ // loop a1 array
for( var j = 0 ; j <a2.length ; j++ ){ // loop a2 array
if( a1[i] == a2[j] ){ // check if is similar
similar.push(a1[i]); // add to similar array
break; // break second loop find that is similar
} // end if
} // end second lopp
} // end first loop
return similar; // return result
} // end function
I have an Array with duplicate values.
I want to create a Set to get the distinct values of that array and remove or create a new Array that will have the same data MINUS the elements required to create the Set.
This is not just a matter of remove the duplicates, but remove a SINGLE entry of a each distinct value in the original array
Something like that works, but I wonder if there is a more direct approach:
let originalValues = [
'a',
'a',
'a',
'b',
'b',
'c',
'c',
'd'
];
let distinct = new Set(originalValues);
/*
distinct -> { 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd' }
*/
// Perhaps originalValues.extract(distinct) ??
for (let val of distinct.values()) {
const index = originalValues.indexOf(val);
originalValues.splice(index, 1);
}
/*
originalValues -> [
'a',
'a',
'b',
'c'
];
*/
Use Array#filter in combination with the Set:
const originalValues = ['a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'd'];
const remainingValues = originalValues.filter(function(val) {
if (this.has(val)) { // if the Set has the value
this.delete(val); // remove it from the Set
return false; // filter it out
}
return true;
}, new Set(originalValues));
console.log(remainingValues);
You could use closure over a Set and check for existence.
let originalValues = ['a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'd'],
result = originalValues.filter((s => a => s.has(a) || !s.add(a))(new Set));
console.log(result);
You should not use indexOf inside a loop, because it has linear cost, and the total cost becomes quadratic. What I would do is use a map to count the occurrences of each item in your array, and then convert back to an array subtracting one occurrence.
let originalValues = ['a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'd'];
let freq = new Map(); // frequency table
for (let item of originalValues)
if (freq.has(item)) freq.set(item, freq.get(item)+1);
else freq.set(item, 1);
var arr = [];
for (let [item,count] of freq)
for (let i=1; i<count; ++i)
arr.push(item);
console.log(arr);
If all items are strings you can use a plain object instead of a map.
You can create a simple Array.prototype.reduce loop with a hash table to count the number of occurrences and populate the result only if it occurs more than once.
See demo below:
var originalValues=['a','a','a','a','b','b','b','c','c','d'];
var result = originalValues.reduce(function(hash) {
return function(p,c) {
hash[c] = (hash[c] || 0) + 1;
if(hash[c] > 1)
p.push(c);
return p;
};
}(Object.create(null)), []);
console.log(result);
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Instead of using Set for this you could just use reduce() and create new array with unique values and also update original array with splice().
let oV = ["a", "a", "a", "a", "b", "b", "c", "c", "d"]
var o = {}
var distinct = oV.reduce(function(r, e) {
if (!o[e]) o[e] = 1 && r.push(e) && oV.splice(oV.indexOf(e), 1)
return r;
}, [])
console.log(distinct)
console.log(oV)
As an alternate approach, you can use following algorithm that will remove only 1st entry of a duplicate element. If not duplicate, it will not remove anything.
const originalValues = ['a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'd'];
var r = originalValues.reduce(function(p, c, i, a) {
var lIndex = a.lastIndexOf(c);
var index = a.indexOf(c)
if (lIndex === index || index !== i)
p.push(c);
return p
}, [])
console.log(r)
If duplicates are not case, then you can directly remove first iteration directly
const originalValues = ['a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'd'];
var r = originalValues.filter(function(el, i) {
return originalValues.indexOf(el) !== i
})
console.log(r)
Is it possible to sort and rearrange an array that looks like this:
itemsArray = [
['Anne', 'a'],
['Bob', 'b'],
['Henry', 'b'],
['Andrew', 'd'],
['Jason', 'c'],
['Thomas', 'b']
]
to match the arrangement of this array:
sortingArr = [ 'b', 'c', 'b', 'b', 'a', 'd' ]
Unfortunately, I don’t have any IDs to keep track on. I would need to priority the items-array to match the sortingArr as close as possible.
Update:
Here is the output I’m looking for:
itemsArray = [
['Bob', 'b'],
['Jason', 'c'],
['Henry', 'b'],
['Thomas', 'b']
['Anne', 'a'],
['Andrew', 'd'],
]
Any idea how this can be done?
One-Line answer.
itemsArray.sort(function(a, b){
return sortingArr.indexOf(a) - sortingArr.indexOf(b);
});
Or even shorter:
itemsArray.sort((a, b) => sortingArr.indexOf(a) - sortingArr.indexOf(b));
Something like:
items = [
['Anne', 'a'],
['Bob', 'b'],
['Henry', 'b'],
['Andrew', 'd'],
['Jason', 'c'],
['Thomas', 'b']
]
sorting = [ 'b', 'c', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'd' ];
result = []
sorting.forEach(function(key) {
var found = false;
items = items.filter(function(item) {
if(!found && item[1] == key) {
result.push(item);
found = true;
return false;
} else
return true;
})
})
result.forEach(function(item) {
document.writeln(item[0]) /// Bob Jason Henry Thomas Andrew
})
Here's a shorter code, but it destroys the sorting array:
result = items.map(function(item) {
var n = sorting.indexOf(item[1]);
sorting[n] = '';
return [n, item]
}).sort().map(function(j) { return j[1] })
If you use the native array sort function, you can pass in a custom comparator to be used when sorting the array. The comparator should return a negative number if the first value is less than the second, zero if they're equal, and a positive number if the first value is greater.
So if I understand the example you're giving correctly, you could do something like:
function sortFunc(a, b) {
var sortingArr = [ 'b', 'c', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'd' ];
return sortingArr.indexOf(a[1]) - sortingArr.indexOf(b[1]);
}
itemsArray.sort(sortFunc);
Case 1: Original Question (No Libraries)
Plenty of other answers that work. :)
Case 2: Original Question (Lodash.js or Underscore.js)
var groups = _.groupBy(itemArray, 1);
var result = _.map(sortArray, function (i) { return groups[i].shift(); });
Case 3: Sort Array1 as if it were Array2
I'm guessing that most people came here looking for an equivalent to PHP's array_multisort (I did) so I thought I'd post that answer as well. There are a couple options:
1. There's an existing JS implementation of array_multisort(). Thanks to #Adnan for pointing it out in the comments. It is pretty large, though.
2. Write your own. (JSFiddle demo)
function refSort (targetData, refData) {
// Create an array of indices [0, 1, 2, ...N].
var indices = Object.keys(refData);
// Sort array of indices according to the reference data.
indices.sort(function(indexA, indexB) {
if (refData[indexA] < refData[indexB]) {
return -1;
} else if (refData[indexA] > refData[indexB]) {
return 1;
}
return 0;
});
// Map array of indices to corresponding values of the target array.
return indices.map(function(index) {
return targetData[index];
});
}
3. Lodash.js or Underscore.js (both popular, smaller libraries that focus on performance) offer helper functions that allow you to do this:
var result = _.chain(sortArray)
.pairs()
.sortBy(1)
.map(function (i) { return itemArray[i[0]]; })
.value();
...Which will (1) group the sortArray into [index, value] pairs, (2) sort them by the value (you can also provide a callback here), (3) replace each of the pairs with the item from the itemArray at the index the pair originated from.
this is probably too late but, you could also use some modified version of the code below in ES6 style. This code is for arrays like:
var arrayToBeSorted = [1,2,3,4,5];
var arrayWithReferenceOrder = [3,5,8,9];
The actual operation :
arrayToBeSorted = arrayWithReferenceOrder.filter(v => arrayToBeSorted.includes(v));
The actual operation in ES5 :
arrayToBeSorted = arrayWithReferenceOrder.filter(function(v) {
return arrayToBeSorted.includes(v);
});
Should result in arrayToBeSorted = [3,5]
Does not destroy the reference array.
function sortFunc(a, b) {
var sortingArr = ["A", "B", "C"];
return sortingArr.indexOf(a.type) - sortingArr.indexOf(b.type);
}
const itemsArray = [
{
type: "A",
},
{
type: "C",
},
{
type: "B",
},
];
console.log(itemsArray);
itemsArray.sort(sortFunc);
console.log(itemsArray);
Why not something like
//array1: array of elements to be sorted
//array2: array with the indexes
array1 = array2.map((object, i) => array1[object]);
The map function may not be available on all versions of Javascript
ES6
const arrayMap = itemsArray.reduce(
(accumulator, currentValue) => ({
...accumulator,
[currentValue[1]]: currentValue,
}),
{}
);
const result = sortingArr.map(key => arrayMap[key]);
More examples with different input arrays
I would use an intermediary object (itemsMap), thus avoiding quadratic complexity:
function createItemsMap(itemsArray) { // {"a": ["Anne"], "b": ["Bob", "Henry"], …}
var itemsMap = {};
for (var i = 0, item; (item = itemsArray[i]); ++i) {
(itemsMap[item[1]] || (itemsMap[item[1]] = [])).push(item[0]);
}
return itemsMap;
}
function sortByKeys(itemsArray, sortingArr) {
var itemsMap = createItemsMap(itemsArray), result = [];
for (var i = 0; i < sortingArr.length; ++i) {
var key = sortingArr[i];
result.push([itemsMap[key].shift(), key]);
}
return result;
}
See http://jsfiddle.net/eUskE/
var sortedArray = [];
for(var i=0; i < sortingArr.length; i++) {
var found = false;
for(var j=0; j < itemsArray.length && !found; j++) {
if(itemsArray[j][1] == sortingArr[i]) {
sortedArray.push(itemsArray[j]);
itemsArray.splice(j,1);
found = true;
}
}
}
http://jsfiddle.net/s7b2P/
Resulting order: Bob,Jason,Henry,Thomas,Anne,Andrew
In case you get here needing to do this with an array of objects, here is an adaptation of #Durgpal Singh's awesome answer:
const itemsArray = [
{ name: 'Anne', id: 'a' },
{ name: 'Bob', id: 'b' },
{ name: 'Henry', id: 'b' },
{ name: 'Andrew', id: 'd' },
{ name: 'Jason', id: 'c' },
{ name: 'Thomas', id: 'b' }
]
const sortingArr = [ 'b', 'c', 'b', 'b', 'a', 'd' ]
Object.keys(itemsArray).sort((a, b) => {
return sortingArr.indexOf(itemsArray[a].id) - sortingArr.indexOf(itemsArray[b].id);
})
let a = ['A', 'B', 'C' ]
let b = [3, 2, 1]
let c = [1.0, 5.0, 2.0]
// these array can be sorted by sorting order of b
const zip = rows => rows[0].map((_, c) => rows.map(row => row[c]))
const sortBy = (a, b, c) => {
const zippedArray = zip([a, b, c])
const sortedZipped = zippedArray.sort((x, y) => x[1] - y[1])
return zip(sortedZipped)
}
sortBy(a, b, c)
For getting a new ordered array, you could take a Map and collect all items with the wanted key in an array and map the wanted ordered keys by taking sifted element of the wanted group.
var itemsArray = [['Anne', 'a'], ['Bob', 'b'], ['Henry', 'b'], ['Andrew', 'd'], ['Jason', 'c'], ['Thomas', 'b']],
sortingArr = [ 'b', 'c', 'b', 'b', 'a', 'd' ],
map = itemsArray.reduce((m, a) => m.set(a[1], (m.get(a[1]) || []).concat([a])), new Map),
result = sortingArr.map(k => (map.get(k) || []).shift());
console.log(result);
I hope that I am helping someone, but if you are trying to sort an array of objects by another array on the first array's key, for example, you want to sort this array of objects:
const foo = [
{name: 'currency-question', key: 'value'},
{name: 'phone-question', key: 'value'},
{name: 'date-question', key: 'value'},
{name: 'text-question', key: 'value'}
];
by this array:
const bar = ['text-question', 'phone-question', 'currency-question', 'date-question'];
you can do so by:
foo.sort((a, b) => bar.indexOf(a.name) - bar.indexOf(b.name));
This is what I was looking for and I did for sorting an Array of Arrays based on another Array:
It's On^3 and might not be the best practice(ES6)
function sortArray(arr, arr1){
return arr.map(item => {
let a = [];
for(let i=0; i< arr1.length; i++){
for (const el of item) {
if(el == arr1[i]){
a.push(el);
}
}
}
return a;
});
}
const arr1 = ['fname', 'city', 'name'];
const arr = [['fname', 'city', 'name'],
['fname', 'city', 'name', 'name', 'city','fname']];
console.log(sortArray(arr,arr1));
It might help someone
I had to do this for a JSON payload I receive from an API, but it wasn't in the order I wanted it.
Array to be the reference array, the one you want the second array sorted by:
var columns = [
{last_name: "last_name"},
{first_name: "first_name"},
{book_description: "book_description"},
{book_id: "book_id"},
{book_number: "book_number"},
{due_date: "due_date"},
{loaned_out: "loaned_out"}
];
I did these as objects because these will have other properties eventually.
Created array:
var referenceArray= [];
for (var key in columns) {
for (var j in columns[key]){
referenceArray.push(j);
}
}
Used this with result set from database. I don't know how efficient it is but with the few number of columns I used, it worked fine.
result.forEach((element, index, array) => {
var tr = document.createElement('tr');
for (var i = 0; i < referenceArray.length - 1; i++) {
var td = document.createElement('td');
td.innerHTML = element[referenceArray[i]];
tr.appendChild(td);
}
tableBody.appendChild(tr);
});
let sortedOrder = [ 'b', 'c', 'b', 'b' ]
let itemsArray = [
['Anne', 'a'],
['Bob', 'b'],
['Henry', 'b'],
['Andrew', 'd'],
['Jason', 'c'],
['Thomas', 'b']
]
a.itemsArray(function (a, b) {
let A = a[1]
let B = b[1]
if(A != undefined)
A = A.toLowerCase()
if(B != undefined)
B = B.toLowerCase()
let indA = sortedOrder.indexOf(A)
let indB = sortedOrder.indexOf(B)
if (indA == -1 )
indA = sortedOrder.length-1
if( indB == -1)
indB = sortedOrder.length-1
if (indA < indB ) {
return -1;
} else if (indA > indB) {
return 1;
}
return 0;
})
This solution will append the objects at the end if the sorting key is not present in reference array
const result = sortingArr.map((i) => {
const pos = itemsArray.findIndex(j => j[1] === i);
const item = itemsArray[pos];
itemsArray.splice(pos, 1);
return item;
});
this should works:
var i,search, itemsArraySorted = [];
while(sortingArr.length) {
search = sortingArr.shift();
for(i = 0; i<itemsArray.length; i++) {
if(itemsArray[i][1] == search) {
itemsArraySorted.push(itemsArray[i]);
break;
}
}
}
itemsArray = itemsArraySorted;
You could try this method.
const sortListByRanking = (rankingList, listToSort) => {
let result = []
for (let id of rankingList) {
for (let item of listToSort) {
if (item && item[1] === id) {
result.push(item)
}
}
}
return result
}
with numerical sortingArr:
itemsArray.sort(function(a, b){
return sortingArr[itemsArray.indexOf(a)] - sortingArr[itemsArray.indexOf(b)];
});
This seems to work for me:
var outputArray=['10','6','8','10','4','6','2','10','4','0','2','10','0'];
var template=['0','2','4','6','8','10'];
var temp=[];
for(i=0;i<template.length;i++) {
for(x=0;x<outputArray.length;x++){
if(template[i] == outputArray[x]) temp.push(outputArray[x])
};
}
outputArray = temp;
alert(outputArray)
Use the $.inArray() method from jQuery. You then could do something like this
var sortingArr = [ 'b', 'c', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'd' ];
var newSortedArray = new Array();
for(var i=sortingArr.length; i--;) {
var foundIn = $.inArray(sortingArr[i], itemsArray);
newSortedArray.push(itemsArray[foundIn]);
}
Use intersection of two arrays.
Ex:
var sortArray = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'];
var arrayToBeSort = ['z', 's', 'b', 'e', 'a'];
_.intersection(sortArray, arrayToBeSort)
=> ['a', 'b', 'e']
if 'z and 's' are out of range of first array, append it at the end of result
this.arrToBeSorted = this.arrToBeSorted.sort(function(a, b){
return uppthis.sorrtingByArray.findIndex(x => x.Id == a.ByPramaeterSorted) - uppthis.sorrtingByArray.findIndex(x => x.Id == b.ByPramaeterSorted);
});
You can do something like this:
function getSorted(itemsArray , sortingArr ) {
var result = [];
for(var i=0; i<arr.length; i++) {
result[i] = arr[sortArr[i]];
}
return result;
}
You can test it out here.
Note: this assumes the arrays you pass in are equivalent in size, you'd need to add some additional checks if this may not be the case.
refer link
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