Re: How to maximise the content of my data CD

You want a "multiple knapsack" or "Multiple Subset Sum" algorithm. Algorithm::Knapsack may be useful. Google for those and you're on your way. :)

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Re^2: How to maximise the content of my data CD by amaguk (Sexton) on Feb 25, 2005 at 13:20 UTC
Thanks, I've downloaded Algorithm::Knapsack, and I've found some links on the web.	[reply]
Re^3: How to maximise the content of my data CD by amaguk (Sexton) on Feb 25, 2005 at 13:35 UTC
And, with Algorithm::Knapsack come a tool named filesack which do : The filesack program finds one or more subsets of files or directories with the maximum total size not exceeding a given size.. And, it's exactly what I want Thank you guys !!!	[reply]