Okay, I didn't understand everything in the first two sentences, I assume those are genetics / bioinformatics terms there :-)

Even without programming anything, it should be possible to formulate specific rules for which row is to be picked, and using examples, demonstrate how those rules are applied. We could try to extract those rules from your descriptions (for example, Laurent_R asked if "lowest start and highest end" is a rule), but so far I don't think the descriptions have been enough, and of course it's easier if you work out what those rules are and tell us (first in English, code later), and show us a couple of sample inputs and the expected output for each. Then, going from that to working code will be much less difficult.

The more advanced solutions I mentioned will only be necessary if the simple, straightforward code is too slow on your input data ("premature optimization is the root of all evil").

In reply to Re^3: Making use of a hash of an array... by haukex
in thread Making use of a hash of an array... by Peter Keystrokes

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