Shell Programming and Scripting

Page Access: 5, 3, 4, 1, 7, 5, 3, 2, 3, 6, 7, 1, 4, 6
Frames: 3   
PA:     5 3 4 1 7 5 3 2 3 6 7 1 4 6
 F1:     5 5 5 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1
 F2:     - 3 3 3 7 7 7 2 2 2 7 7 7 6
 F3:     - - 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 4 4
PF:  x x x x x x x x - x x x  x x

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;


# In a production system these should be validated before progessing, but for now...
print "Page access: ";
chomp(my @pa=split(/,\s+/,<STDIN>)); # assumes separated by comma and spaces as in your example
print "Frames: ";
chomp(my $frames=<STDIN>);


my @frames; # set up an array to hold an array for each frame. 
for (my$count=0;$count<$frames;$count++){ #Process the array of arrays (see perldoc perlref for details of using array references)
        for (my $index=0;$index<@pa;$index++){ #Deep copying the elements of the Page access into each frame array
                ${$frames[$count]}[$index]=$pa[$index];
        }
        @{$frames[$count]}[0 .. ($count - 1)]=split('',"-"x$count) if $count; #Set the leading irrellevant values to '-'
        for (my $index=$count;$index<@{$frames[$count]};$index+=$frames){ # go through the frame array by whatever frame size we set
                ${$frames[$count]}[$index +2 ] =${$frames[$count]}[$index+1]=$pa[$index];
        }
        #truncate the array at the size of @pa
        @{$frames[$count]}=@{$frames[$count]}[0..(@pa - 1)];
}
#Print out your results
my $count=1;
print "PA:\t",join(' ', @pa),"\n";
for my $frame_array_ref (@frames){
        print " F$count:\t",join(' ', @{$frame_array_ref}),"\n";
        $count++;
}
# I have no idea what the PF line represents, sorry

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;


# In a production system these should be validated before progessing, but for now...
print "Page access: ";
chomp(my @pa=split(/,\s+/,<STDIN>)); # assumes separated by comma and spaces as in your example
print "Frames: ";
chomp(my $frames=<STDIN>);


my @frames; # set up an array to hold an array for each frame. 
for (my$count=0;$count<$frames;$count++){ #Process the array of arrays (see perldoc perlref for details of using array references)
        for (my $index=0;$index<@pa;$index++){ #Deep copying the elements of the Page access into each frame array
                ${$frames[$count]}[$index]=$pa[$index];
        }
        @{$frames[$count]}[0 .. ($count - 1)]=split('',"-"x$count) if $count; #Set the leading irrellevant values to '-'
        for (my $index=$count;$index<@{$frames[$count]};$index+=$frames){ # go through the frame array by whatever frame size we set
                for my $x (1..($frames -1)){ #set $frame size elements
                        ${$frames[$count]}[$index + $x] =$pa[$index];
                }
        }
        #truncate the array at the size of @pa
        @{$frames[$count]}=@{$frames[$count]}[0..(@pa - 1)];
}
#Print out your results
my $count=1;
print "PA:\t",join(' ', @pa),"\n";
for my $frame_array_ref (@frames){
        print " F$count:\t",join(' ', @{$frame_array_ref}),"\n";
        $count++;
}