/* $Id: pairs.pl,v 1.1 2008-02-12 17:03:52 vsc Exp $ Part of SWI-Prolog Author: Jan Wielemaker E-mail: wielemak@science.uva.nl WWW: http://www.swi-prolog.org Copyright (C): 1985-2006, University of Amsterdam This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA As a special exception, if you link this library with other files, compiled with a Free Software compiler, to produce an executable, this library does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by the GNU General Public License. */ :- module(pairs, [ pairs_keys_values/3, pairs_values/2, pairs_keys/2, group_pairs_by_key/2, transpose_pairs/2, map_list_to_pairs/3 ]). /** Operations on key-value lists @ingroup SWILibrary This module implements common operations on Key-Value lists, also known as _Pairs_. Pairs have great practical value, especially due to keysort/2 and the library assoc.pl. This library is based on disussion in the SWI-Prolog mailinglist, including specifications from Quintus and a library proposal by Richard O'Keefe. @see keysort/2, library(assoc) @author Jan Wielemaker */ %% pairs_keys_values(?Pairs, ?Keys, ?Values) is det. % % True if Keys holds the keys of Pairs and Values the values. % % Deterministic if any argument is instantiated to a finite list % and the others are either free or finite lists. pairs_keys_values(Pairs, Keys, Values) :- ( nonvar(Pairs) -> pairs_keys_values_(Pairs, Keys, Values) ; nonvar(Keys) -> keys_values_pairs(Keys, Values, Pairs) ; values_keys_pairs(Values, Keys, Pairs) ). pairs_keys_values_([], [], []). pairs_keys_values_([K-V|Pairs], [K|Keys], [V|Values]) :- pairs_keys_values_(Pairs, Keys, Values). keys_values_pairs([], [], []). keys_values_pairs([K|Ks], [V|Vs], [K-V|Pairs]) :- keys_values_pairs(Ks, Vs, Pairs). values_keys_pairs([], [], []). values_keys_pairs([V|Vs], [K|Ks], [K-V|Pairs]) :- values_keys_pairs(Vs, Ks, Pairs). %% pairs_values(+Pairs, -Values) is det. % % Remove the keys from a list of Key-Value pairs. Same as % pairs_keys_values(Pairs, _, Values) pairs_values([], []). pairs_values([_-V|T0], [V|T]) :- pairs_values(T0, T). %% pairs_keys(+Pairs, -Keys) is det. % % Remove the values from a list of Key-Value pairs. Same as % pairs_keys_values(Pairs, Keys, _) pairs_keys([], []). pairs_keys([K-_|T0], [K|T]) :- pairs_keys(T0, T). %% group_pairs_by_key(+Pairs, -Joined:list(Key-Values)) is det. % % Group values with the same key. For example: % % == % ?- group_pairs_by_key([a-2, a-1, b-4], X). % % X = [a-[2,1], b-[4]] % == % % @param Pairs Key-Value list, sorted to the standard order % of terms (as keysort/2 does) % @param Joined List of Key-Group, where Group is the % list of Values associated with Key. group_pairs_by_key([], []). group_pairs_by_key([M-N|T0], [M-[N|TN]|T]) :- same_key(M, T0, TN, T1), group_pairs_by_key(T1, T). same_key(M, [M-N|T0], [N|TN], T) :- !, same_key(M, T0, TN, T). same_key(_, L, [], L). %% transpose_pairs(+Pairs, -Transposed) is det. % % Swap Key-Value to Value-Key and sort the result on Value % (the new key) using keysort/2. transpose_pairs(Pairs, Transposed) :- flip_pairs(Pairs, Flipped), keysort(Flipped, Transposed). flip_pairs([], []). flip_pairs([Key-Val|Pairs], [Val-Key|Flipped]) :- flip_pairs(Pairs, Flipped). %% map_list_to_pairs(:Function, +List, -Keyed) % % Create a key-value list by mapping each element of List. % For example, if we have a list of lists we can create a % list of Length-List using % % == % map_list_to_pairs(length, ListOfLists, Pairs), % == :- module_transparent map_list_to_pairs/3, map_list_to_pairs2/3. map_list_to_pairs(Function, List, Pairs) :- map_list_to_pairs2(List, Function, Pairs). map_list_to_pairs2([], _, []). map_list_to_pairs2([H|T0], Pred, [K-H|T]) :- call(Pred, H, K), map_list_to_pairs2(T0, Pred, T).