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Top Forums Programming Code review: recursion in circular array, reduce two functions to one? Post 303014893 by f77hack on Thursday 22nd of March 2018 08:39:50 PM
Old 03-22-2018
Code review: recursion in circular array, reduce two functions to one?

Hello,
I think there's an easier way to do this but can't seem to recall but given an array of animals[0...5] and an initial value is a random index in the array, here it's 3.

3,4,5,4,3,2,1,0,1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1,0... inifinite repeat

a quick brute force solution i came up with was two functions, i set a limit of 20 so it doesn't become a memory bomb. there would be some kind of other conditional break point.

Code:
func fwd()
{
  counter += 1
  while(currentRow < (animals.count - 1))
  { currentRow += 1 }
  if counter < 20 { bk() }
}

func bk()
{
  counter += 1
  while(currentRow > 0)
  { currentRow -= 1 }
  if counter < 20 { fwd () }
}

fwd()


Last edited by f77hack; 03-22-2018 at 09:44 PM.. Reason: typos
 

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ARRAY_RAND(3)								 1							     ARRAY_RAND(3)

array_rand - Pick one or more random entries out of an array

SYNOPSIS
mixed array_rand (array $array, [int $num = 1]) DESCRIPTION
Picks one or more random entries out of an array, and returns the key (or keys) of the random entries. PARAMETERS
o $array - The input array. o $num - Specifies how many entries should be picked. RETURN VALUES
When picking only one entry, array_rand(3) returns the key for a random entry. Otherwise, an array of keys for the random entries is returned. This is done so that random keys can be picked from the array as well as random values. Trying to pick more elements than there are in the array will result in an E_WARNING level error, and NULL will be returned. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |5.2.10 | | | | | | | The resulting array of keys is no longer shuf- | | | fled. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 array_rand(3) example <?php $input = array("Neo", "Morpheus", "Trinity", "Cypher", "Tank"); $rand_keys = array_rand($input, 2); echo $input[$rand_keys[0]] . " "; echo $input[$rand_keys[1]] . " "; ?> SEE ALSO
shuffle(3). PHP Documentation Group ARRAY_RAND(3)
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