From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-08-29T21:36:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] how to unflatten a flat-array

SHIGETOMI, Takuhiko wrote:
> greetings, Daniel. true. 'next' works.
>
>> You can't easily go backwards, but skipping to the next is
>> as easy as saying `next'.
>
> on the other hand, and as your reference 'cannot easyily go
> backwards', 'next' forgets current object unless any variable on
> outside of the yieldee block.
>
> how about writing a special yielder like as below ..
>
>     any-enumerable-object.sliding_each do |prev,this,next|
>       ...
>     end
>
>  - could be really useful?
>  - any other good name?

Like this?

module Enumerable
  def each_window(size)
    wind = []
    each do |x|
      wind << x
      wind.shift if wind.size > size
      yield *wind if wind.size == size
    end
    self
  end
end

?> %w{aa bb cc dd ee ff gg hh ii jj kk}.each_window(3) {|*a| p a}
["aa", "bb", "cc"]
["bb", "cc", "dd"]
["cc", "dd", "ee"]
["dd", "ee", "ff"]
["ee", "ff", "gg"]
["ff", "gg", "hh"]
["gg", "hh", "ii"]
["hh", "ii", "jj"]
["ii", "jj", "kk"]
=> ["aa", "bb", "cc", "dd", "ee", "ff", "gg", "hh", "ii", "jj", "kk"]

>> %w{aa bb cc dd ee ff gg hh ii jj kk}.each_window(3) {|pre,here,post|
print pre, ">", here, "<", post, "\n"}
aa>bb<cc
bb>cc<dd
cc>dd<ee
dd>ee<ff
ee>ff<gg
ff>gg<hh
gg>hh<ii
hh>ii<jj
ii>jj<kk
=> ["aa", "bb", "cc", "dd", "ee", "ff", "gg", "hh", "ii", "jj", "kk"]

Kind regards

    robert