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Range Parser Needed

Given a number, and a string of ranges (e.g. "..4,7,11,14-19, 33.."), I want to determine if the number is within the specified range.

Has anyone already built something like that?

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This might help you partially

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So we have two inputs (or controls):

 

  1. A number (Numeric datatype, I guess integer datatype from the example, but not expressively defined. Singed or unsigned? We might have ambiguities defining ranges for negative numbers since the "-" is overloaded).
  2. A string, defining the ranges.

And one output (boolean), where TRUE means that the number is part of the ranges.

 

  • Can we make any other assumptions (highest possible number, etc.).
  • Is speed important?
  • What are all possible special characters and their meaning (",", "-", "..", etc.)
  • Is the string input often the same with just the number changing (LUT candidate), or do both inputs change often?
  • Can we assume that the string input is always well formed, or should we check and possibly return an error? 

 

I can think of quite a few solutions. The best probably depends on the answers to the above..

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@altenbach wrote:

So we have two inputs (or controls):

 

  1. A number (Numeric datatype, I guess integer datatype from the example, but not expressively defined. Singed or unsigned? We might have ambiguities defining ranges for negative numbers since the "-" is overloaded).
  2. A string, defining the ranges.

And one output (boolean), where TRUE means that the number is part of the ranges.

 

  • Can we make any other assumptions (highest possible number, etc.).
  • Is speed important?
  • What are all possible special characters and their meaning (",", "-", "..", etc.)
  • Is the string input often the same with just the number changing (LUT candidate), or do both inputs change often?
  • Can we assume that the string input is always well formed, or should we check and possibly return an error? 

 

I can think of quite a few solutions. The best probably depends on the answers to the above..


  • In my specific case, the number will always be positive whole number <2100; but it would be nice to have a more general solution.
  • You're right about the "-".  I should eliminate it as a special character and only use "..".  The only other special character being the comma.
  • Both the string and number will change; but the function will usually be called only a few times per day.
  • It's OK to assume that the string is always well formed.
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Do you have the ability to control the formatting of the ranges? Just having one modifier (e.g. 14-19, 33-, or 14..19, 33.. ) would make it super simple and therefore super fast.

 

Quick edit if not just do a string replace and that's first step then I would think.

Quick edit 2 it's early and I just restated something that's right above me, you're welcome.

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@FireFist-Redhawk wrote:

Do you have the ability to control the formatting of the ranges? Just having one modifier (e.g. 14-19, 33-, or 14..19, 33.. ) would make it super simple and therefore super fast.

 

Quick edit if not just do a string replace and that's first step then I would think.

Quick edit 2 it's early and I just restated something that's right above me, you're welcome.


At this point, I can define the format of the ranges to be anything.

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I would use hyphen then as it's just one less character. This is what I came up with, feels pretty clean I think. Don't think I inlined it yet.

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Edit: Edge case if only one range (no comma). And you can replace the hyphen with something else to get negative number functionality, but Match Pattern doesn't like the double dot it seems.

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@FireFist-Redhawk wrote:

I would use hyphen then as it's just one less character. This is what I came up with, feels pretty clean I think. Don't think I inlined it yet.

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In Range.png

Edit: Edge case if only one range (no comma). And you can replace the hyphen with something else to get negative number functionality, but Match Pattern doesn't like the double dot it seems.


Nice.  Here's my variation of it (uses ".." instead of "-"; handles negative numbers; is malleable so it works with any numeric representation)

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@paul_cardinale wrote:

@FireFist-Redhawk wrote:

I would use hyphen then as it's just one less character. This is what I came up with, feels pretty clean I think. Don't think I inlined it yet.

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In Range.png

Edit: Edge case if only one range (no comma). And you can replace the hyphen with something else to get negative number functionality, but Match Pattern doesn't like the double dot it seems.


Nice.  Here's my variation of it (uses ".." instead of "-"; handles negative numbers; is malleable so it works with any numeric representation)

ir.png


Oops, there's a bug: If you wire a numeric array to "Number", it doesn't work properly.

Since I don't need it to work on arrays, I'll put fixing it onto the back burner.

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