'Folding' a list

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cip23
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'Folding' a list

Post by cip23 » Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:19 am

I'm looking for a way to 'fold' a list, so that a given list [1, 2, 3, 4] repeats until a certain index is reached.

Pseudocode:
[1,2,3,4].fold(10)
becomes [1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2]

I didn't find a zl object to do this, but I could be wrong...

Any ideas?

best regards,
Christoph

toscanini
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Re: 'Folding' a list

Post by toscanini » Fri Jul 06, 2012 3:08 pm

That's pretty much what zl group does...

doubleUG
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Re: 'Folding' a list

Post by doubleUG » Fri Jul 06, 2012 4:46 pm

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copy the text, open Live > drag in empty M4L device > open Max editor > paste > save M4L device
https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/vignett ... ng_patches

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cip23
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Re: 'Folding' a list

Post by cip23 » Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:20 pm

ShelLuser wrote:I don't think group is very useful here since it also requires to know the size of the list.

Reg otoh. allows you to store a list and output it as many times as you like. So all you need is something like uzi to output a specified number of bangs, like so:
Thanks. I needed to take care of the case that the new list is shorter than the old one, and also not output anything if the list is changed (the int with the desired new length should trigger the output). So group was needed, as well as reg, uzi, etc.

So it became a little bit more complicated:

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Do you experienced max programmers have a rule of thumb when it's time to write a javascript function? Like saying: »If there's no object that does more or less what I want out-of-the-box, write a function.«

In Python, this is done in a few lines:

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>>> def foldlist(l,i):
...     nl = []
...     while len(nl)<i:
...             nl.extend(l)
...     return nl[:i]
... 
>>> foldlist([2,3,4],6)
[2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 4]
It's obvious that some things are better done in code, I'm just wondering where one draws the line.

Thanks for your assistance,
best regards,
Christoph

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