#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use PDL; use PDL::NiceSlice; my $dec = pdl [[1,1,2,2,3],[10,15,13,11,6]]; my $groups_vec = $dec(:,0); my $groups = $groups_vec->uniq; my $groups_t = $groups->transpose; my $values = $dec(:,1); my $masks = ($groups_t == $groups_vec); my $group_values = $masks*$values; my $max_of_each_group = $group_values->maximum; my $final_pdl = pdl($groups, $max_of_each_group)->transpose; print "Original Data: $dec\n"; print "Groups: $groups\n"; print "Transposed Groups: $groups_t\n"; print "Masks: $masks\n"; print "Group values: $group_values\n"; print "Max of each group: $max_of_each_group\n"; print "Final pdl: $final_pdl\n"; exit; #### Original Data: [ [ 1 1 2 2 3] [10 15 13 11 6] ] Groups: [1 2 3] Transposed Groups: [ [1] [2] [3] ] Masks: [ [1 1 0 0 0] [0 0 1 1 0] [0 0 0 0 1] ] Group values: [ [10 15 0 0 0] [ 0 0 13 11 0] [ 0 0 0 0 6] ] Max of each group: [15 13 6] Final pdl: [ [ 1 15] [ 2 13] [ 3 6] ]