in reply to Create union from ranges, but compare respectively
It you want to do something pair-wise, just use pairwise :)
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11144630 use warnings; use List::AllUtils qw( max min pairwise ); my $TM_part1="25-40,74-93,95-120,130-149"; my $TM_part2="31-47,84-99,107-123,137-151"; my @split_TM1 = split(",", $TM_part1); my @split_TM2 = split(",", $TM_part2); my $result = join ',', pairwise { my $low = max map /^(\d+)/, $a, $b; my $high = min map /-(\d+)/, $a, $b; $low <= $high ? "$low-$high" : (); } @split_TM1, @split_TM2; print "$result\n";
Outputs:
31-40,84-93,107-120,137-149
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