in reply to Re^2: Help with a Regex
in thread Help with a Regex

well... i got some suckie code (just woke up with a terrible hangover... too much free beer ;-) )
but i think i understand it a bit more now... take the input string, look for the highest value (first time it's M, second time it's D), and start looking from that position for the next highest value (skipping of course the previous highest one).

#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my @a = ('M','D','C','L','X','V','I'); my $max = 0; my %a_val=map { $_ => $max++ } split //,'MDCLXVI'; sub search_biggest { my ($array,$model)= @_; my $begin=7; my $pos = 0; my $j; for (my $i = 0; $i < @$array; $i++) { $j = 0; while ($j < @$model) { if ($array->[$i] eq $model->[$j] and $a_val{$array->[$i]} +< $begin){ $begin = $a_val{$array->[$i]}; $pos = $i; $j++; last; } $j++; } } return $pos; } while(my $line = <DATA>){ my ($b,$expect) = split /\s+/, $line; my @b_arr = split(//,$b); my $count = 0; my %val=map { $_ => $count++ } split //, $b; my @results = ('.') x @a; my $searched="0"; my $j = 0; my $pos = search_biggest(\@b_arr, \@a); for (my $i = $pos; $i < @b_arr; $i++) { my $found = 0; while ($j < @a) { last if $b_arr[$i] =~ /$searched/; if ($b_arr[$i] eq $a[$j]){ $found = 1; $results[$j]=$a[$j]; $searched .= $a[$j]; } $j++; if($found and $i < @b_arr){ my @new = ( $i + 1 < @b_arr ? @b_arr[ $i +1 .. $#b_a +rr ] : ($b_arr[$#b_arr]) ); my @new2 = @a; $i = search_biggest(\@new,\@new2) if not @new = 1; last; } } $j = 0 unless $found; } my $result = join "",@results; printf "%7s => %7s ( %7s : %-3s)\n", $b, $expect, $result, $result eq $expect ? "Ok" : "Not Ok"; } print "\n"; __DATA__ I ......I IV .....V. V .....V. VI .....VI IX ....X.. X ....X.. XI ....X.I XIV ....XV. XV ....XV. XVI ....XVI XIX ....X.I X ....X.. XL ....X.. LX ...LX.. XC ....X.. CLXIX ..CLX.I CDXLVI .D..XVI MCMXCVI M.C.XVI MDCLI MDCL..I
for the suckie code, here's the output:
I => ......I ( ......I : Ok ) IV => .....V. ( .....V. : Ok ) V => .....V. ( .....V. : Ok ) VI => .....VI ( .....VI : Ok ) IX => ....X.. ( ....X.. : Ok ) X => ....X.. ( ....X.. : Ok ) XI => ....X.I ( ....X.I : Ok ) XIV => ....XV. ( ....X.I : Not Ok) XV => ....XV. ( ....XV. : Ok ) XVI => ....XVI ( ....XVI : Ok ) XIX => ....X.I ( ....X.I : Ok ) X => ....X.. ( ....X.. : Ok ) XL => ....X.. ( ...L... : Not Ok) LX => ...LX.. ( ...LX.. : Ok ) XC => ....X.. ( ..C.... : Not Ok) CLXIX => ..CLX.I ( ..CLX.I : Ok ) CDXLVI => .D..XVI ( .D..XVI : Ok ) MCMXCVI => M.C.XVI ( M.C.XVI : Ok ) MDCLI => MDCL..I ( MDCL..I : Ok )
I think i know what to do, but my code is not really working as I expected.. or maybe I should wait till my hangover is ... over ;-)

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