in reply to convert columns into matrix and get population count?

Play with this; learn things; ask questions (with apologies to Scott Bakula):

#! perl -slw use strict; use Data::Dump qw[ pp ]; ## Input to separate arrays my( @xs, @ys ); ( $xs[ @xs ], $ys[ @ys ] ) = split while <DATA>; ## cross xs with ys and get pop count of pairings my %freq; for my $x ( @xs ) { ++$freq{ sprintf "%.2f %.2f", $x, $_ } for @ys; } #pp \%freq; ## most plotters require input as vectors, so split them out my( @rx, @ry, @rz ); ( $rx[ @rx ], $ry[ @ry ], $rz[ @rz ] ) = ( split(), $freq{ $_ } ) for +keys %freq; ## print them as line vectors print "@rx"; print "@ry"; print "@rz"; __DATA__ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0

Output:

C:\test>1163636 9.00 3.00 9.00 5.00 7.00 9.00 1.00 7.00 3.00 1.00 1.00 9.00 3.00 3.00 +5.00 9.00 3.00 1.00 5.00 7.00 7.00 5.00 7.00 1.00 5.00 6.00 8.00 0.00 8.00 2.00 8.00 2.00 6.00 2.00 8.00 4.00 2.00 4.00 6.00 +0.00 4.00 0.00 6.00 4.00 8.00 4.00 2.00 0.00 0.00 6.00 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

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