NAME

Number::Rangify - Optimize a list of values into ranges

VERSION

version 1.100860

SYNOPSIS

use Number::Rangify 'rangify';

my @list = (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 15);
my @ranges = rangify(@list);
for my $range (@ranges) {
    printf "%s-%s\n", $range->Size;
}

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a function that can optimize a list of values into range objects.

FUNCTIONS

rangify

Takes a list of values and makes them into ranges.

For example:

rangify(1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 15);

returns the following ranges:

1-3
5-5
7-7
9-11
15-15

It returns a list (in list context) or an array reference (in scalar context) of Set::IntRange objects.

Duplicate values in the input list are ignored.

INSTALLATION

See perlmodinstall for information and options on installing Perl modules.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Number-Rangify.

AVAILABILITY

The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ to find a CPAN site near you, or see http://search.cpan.org/dist/Number-Rangify/.

The development version lives at http://github.com/hanekomu/Number-Rangify/. Instead of sending patches, please fork this project using the standard git and github infrastructure.

AUTHOR

Marcel Gruenauer <marcel@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2007 by Marcel Gruenauer.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.