RosettaCodeData/Task/Kolakoski-sequence/Perl/kolakoski-sequence.pl
2023-07-01 13:44:08 -04:00

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Perl

sub kolakoski {
my($terms,@seed) = @_;
my @k;
my $k = $seed[0] == 1 ? 1 : 0;
if ($k == 1) { @k = (1, split //, (($seed[1]) x $seed[1])) }
else { @k = ($seed[0]) x $seed[0] }
do {
$k++;
push @k, ($seed[$k % @seed]) x $k[$k];
} until $terms <= @k;
@k[0..$terms-1]
}
sub rle {
(my $string = join '', @_) =~ s/((.)\2*)/length $1/eg;
split '', $string
}
for ([20,1,2], [20,2,1], [30,1,3,1,2], [30,1,3,2,1]) {
$terms = shift @$_;
print "\n$terms members of the series generated from [@$_] is:\n";
print join(' ', @kolakoski = kolakoski($terms, @$_)) . "\n";
$status = join('', @rle = rle(@kolakoski)) eq join('', @kolakoski[0..$#rle]) ? 'True' : 'False';
print "Looks like a Kolakoski sequence?: $status\n";
}