RosettaCodeData/Task/Order-disjoint-list-items/AppleScript/order-disjoint-list-items-2.applescript
2023-07-01 13:44:08 -04:00

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AppleScript

(*
The task description talks about items in lists, but the examples are space-delimited substrings of strings.
The handler here deals with items in lists and leaves it to the calling code to sort out the rest.
*)
on odli(m, n)
-- Use shallow copies of the lists in case the calling process wants the passed originals to remain intact.
set m to m's items
set n_source to n's items
set n_check to n's items
repeat with i from 1 to (count m)
set thisItem to item i of m
if ({thisItem} is in n_check) then
set item i of m to beginning of n_source
set n_source to rest of n_source
if (n_source is {}) then exit repeat
repeat with j from 1 to (count n_check)
if (item j of n_check is thisItem) then
set item j of n_check to beginning of n_check
set n_check to rest of n_check
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
end if
end repeat
return m
end odli
-- Task code:
set textPairs to {{"the cat sat on the mat", "mat cat"}, {"the cat sat on the mat", "cat mat"}, ¬
{"A B C A B C A B C", "C A C A"}, {"A B C A B D A B E", "E A D A"}, ¬
{"A B", "B"}, {"A B", "B A"}, {"A B B A", "B A"}}
set output to {}
set astid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to space
repeat with thisPair in textPairs
set {m, n} to thisPair
set spiel to "Data M: '" & m & "'\tOrder N: '" & n & "'\t--> '"
set end of output to spiel & odli(m's text items, n's text items) & "'"
end repeat
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to linefeed
set output to output as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid
return output