This crate defines Structs: Set, OrderedSet, IndexedSet, RankedSet and methods acting on them. These structs are type-safe wrappers for the more primitive imported functions and methods from crate indxvec.
The main capabilities of sets include: efficient sorting, ranking, merging, searching and indices manipulations. The structs contain generic vectors Vec<T>. Thus they will work with vectors or slices of primitive end types but also with any arbitrarily complex end type T, as long as the required traits PartialOrd and Copy, are implemented for T.
Insert into your Cargo.toml file [dependencies] section: sets = "^1"
Import into your source file(s) the four structs for the four different types of sets and the two traits SetOps and MutSetOps. The following 'use' declaration imports everything:
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use sets::{Set,OrderedSet,IndexedSet,RankedSet,SetOps,MutSetOps};
The initialisers and convertors are associated with their structs, hence the :: syntax, e.g.:
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let s = Set::from_slice(&v);
Example use of methods from the traits SetOps, and MutSetOps:
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// new mutable set with unique elements
let mut su = s.nonrepeat();
// transformed in place into the opposite order
su.mreverse;
It is highly recommended to read and run tests/tests.rs for many more examples of usage. Use a single thread to run them. It may be a bit slower but it will write the results in the right order:
cargo test --release -- --test-threads=1 --nocapture --color always
Implements the following methods for all four types of sets (Structs):
reverse, nonrepeat, infsup, member, search, union, intersection, difference.
Some of these methods are more efficient for the ordered and indexed sets, rather than for the unordered sets. For example, member and search are then able to use binary search. Union is like the classical merge but only one copy of items that were present in both input sets is kept. To remove repetitions from a single set at any other time, use nonrepeat.
intersection and difference, when applied to IndexedSet(s) and RankedSet(s) return an OrderedSet as a result. This result can be explicitly converted to other types of sets when needed.
Union returns the same type as the one to which it is applied. Thus, for example, union of two (unordered) Sets will produce another unordered Set (just their concatenation).
munion, minteresection and mdifference, (where 'm' stands for 'mutable', see below), will overwrite self with the resulting set of the same type.
Implements the following methods for all four types of sets:
mreverse, mnonrepeat, munion, mintersection, mdifference.
They overwrite the mutable set to which they are applied with the result. Thus they are not functional but in the context of handling large vectors, they are often simpler and more efficient.
Version 1.0.3 - updated to be compatible with indxvec version 1.2.1. Improved munion.
Version 1.0.2 - some changes to printing to reflect changes to indxvec.
Version 1.0.1 - some tidying up of code, no changes of functionality.
Version 1.0.0 - stable version with some minor improvements to README.md (this document). Updated to indxvec = "^1" and Rust edition 2021.
Version 0.1.8 - infsup now returns Struct MinMax (defined in crate sets).
Version 0.1.7 - just some cosmetic cleaning up. No change of functionality from the previous version.
Version 0.1.6 - implemented MutSetOps for all set types and added some tests.
Version 0.1.5 - implemented SetOps for RankedSet, making the implementations now complete. Future work: adding mutable sets.
Version 0.1.4 - updated readme, implemented SetOps for IndexedSet.
Version 0.1.3 - fixed readme typos, improved tests, implemented SetOps for OrderedSet.
Version 0.1.2 - implemented SetOps trait for Struct Set. The other three Structs will follow in the next versions.
Version 0.1.1 - competed the associated functions for all initiations and conversions of the four set Structs.
Version 0.1.0 - first version, includes creation and conversions of the Structs representing the four types of sets.