From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-06-06T18:04:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Histogram

2008/6/6 Justin To <tekmc@hotmail.com>:
> I've been looking around to learn about histograms, and haven't had any
> luck... can someone tell me how a histogram would work for something
> like this:
>
> Name, Age
> Bob, 2
> Jim, 2
> Eric, 4
> Rob, 5
>
> How would I use a histogram to get a result like this:
>
> Age | Names
> 2   | Bob, Jim
> 4   | Eric
> 5   | Rob

Here's a variant:

10:43:33 $ /c/Temp/hist.rb
Age  | Name
   2 | Bob,Jim
   4 | Eric
   5 | Rob
11:03:55 $ cat /c/Temp/hist.rb
#!/bin/env ruby

hist = Hash.new {|h,k| h[k]=[]}
DATA.each do |line|
  name, age = line.split /,\s*/
  hist[Integer(age)] << name rescue nil
end

printf "%-4s | %s\n", "Age", "Name"
hist.sort_by {|k,| k}.each do |k,v|
  printf "%4d | %s\n", k, v.join(',')
end

__END__
Name, Age
Bob, 2
Jim, 2
Eric, 4
Rob, 5
11:04:08 $

Kind regards

robert

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