From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2006-03-10T23:32:10+09:00
Subject: Re: how to introduce reference objects into ruby

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Geert Fannes wrote:

> But things change when you want to implement a SPARSE matrix, i.e., a
> matrix for which most of its elements are empty. E.g., I am analyzing
> call-networks, data from a telecom firm that contains the call durations
> for its customers, which can be represented with a matrix: element (i,j)
> is the duration that j calls i. Since not everybody calls to everybody,

# Untested code.  
# There may well be a faster way, but you don't need pointers to do 
# this.
class Durations
  def initialize()
    @matrix = Hash.new
  end

  def insert(i,j,duration)
    @matrix[[i,j]] = duration
  end

  def getrow(i)
    return getline(0,1,i)
  end

  def getcol(i)
    return getline(1,0,i)
  end

  private

  # get horizontal or vertical line
  def getline(a,b,i)
    line = []
    linehash = {}
    @matrix.keys.each do |k|
      linehash[k[b]] = @matrix[k] if k[a] == i 
    end
    linehash.keys.sort.each do |index|
      line << linehas[index]
    end
    return line
  end 

end

#       HTH
#       Hugh