Hi, Another two ways, Not as compact or optimized, but generate the same output 1) G groups, C categories, and S strings
G←(⍴∪C)⍴⊂⍬ ◊ C {G[⍺]←⊂(⊃G[⍺]),⊂⍵}¨S ◊ G I forgot how to suppress the middle output or in a function ∇ groups ← categories group items groups ← (⍴∪categories)⍴⊂⍬ categories {groups[⍺]←⊂(⊃groups[⍺]),⊂⍵}¨ items 2) (1+C[x]) ⊂ S[(⍳⍴C)[x←⍋C]] Best wishes, Ala'a On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Louis de Forcrand <ol...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > Is it important that they be grouped in the order specified by the key? > If not, this should do (with C the categories and S the strings): > > (⊂[1]C∘.=∪C)/¨⊂S > > If they must be ordered, then this can do it: > > (⊂[1]C∘.=U[⍋U←∪C])/¨⊂S > > In addition, the categories don’t have to be numbers. > > Note that Dyalog’s (dyadic) key function is equivalent to this, with L being > the operator’s left operand: > > L¨(⊂[1]C∘.=∪C)/¨⊂S > > Cheers, > Louis > > On 05 Jul 2017, at 11:43, Elias Mårtenson <loke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a list of strings, and a corresponding set of categorisations: > > strings ← 'foo' 'bar' 'abc' 'def' 'ghi' 'jkl' > categories ← 1 1 0 2 1 0 > > I now need to group these strings according to category. In other words, > when applying operation X, I need the following output: > > categories X strings > ┏→━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ > ┃┏→━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┏→━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┏→━━━━┓┃ > ┃┃"abc" "jkl"┃ ┃"foo" "bar" "hgi"┃ ┃"def"┃┃ > ┃┗∊━━━━━━━━━━┛ ┗∊━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ ┗∊━━━━┛┃ > ┗∊∊━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ > > What is the best way to solve this? > >