Re^3: help with 2D arrays with perl requested

Thank you very much. I really appreciate your help

just out of interest - in your opinion - how difficult might it be to convert the results into a graphical form? I was thinking something along the lines of a matrix with squares filled in at the appropriate places?

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Re^4: help with 2D arrays with perl requested by roboticus (Chancellor) on Apr 29, 2006 at 13:19 UTC
You could convert it to graphical form very easily. In that case, I'd use the 2D array form, and then in the printout loop, generate the contents of each square based on its value. For ASCII graphics, you could set thresholds for different counts, such as ' ' for no animals, '.' for 1-2, ':' for 3-6, '*' for 7-15 and '#' for 15+ or some such. If you wanted HTML, you could do basically the same thing, just generate your table cells with something like: `<td bgcolor="xxxxxx"> </td>` [download] filling in the appropriate background color based on the number of critter matches. --roboticus	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^4: help with 2D arrays with perl requested
by roboticus (Chancellor) on Apr 29, 2006 at 13:19 UTC

For ASCII graphics, you could set thresholds for different counts, such as ' ' for no animals, '.' for 1-2, ':' for 3-6, '*' for 7-15 and '#' for 15+ or some such. If you wanted HTML, you could do basically the same thing, just generate your table cells with something like:

<td bgcolor="xxxxxx">&nbsp;</td>
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--roboticus

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