Here you go Skip. Simple, but seems cleaner to me to prevent the creation of the unwanted fill in the first place.
a: -.~ ,(>:i.5)<\'abcde' On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 9:00 AM Skip Cave <s...@caveconsulting.com> wrote: > Removing the empty cells: > > a#~-.(<'')=a=.,(>:i.5)<\'abcde' > > │a│b│c│d│e│ab│bc│cd│de│abc│bcd│cde│abcd│bcde│abcde│ > > > I'm sure this can be reduced by J experts in implicit coding. > > > Skip > > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 12:23 PM Jimmy Gauvin <jimmy.gau...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I was wondering if there was some way to emulate R.E.Boss's elegant code > to > > generate all the substrings of consecutive elements of a vector : > > > > <@(<\.)\'abcde' > > ┌───┬──────┬──────────┬───────────────┬─────────────────────┐ > > │┌─┐│┌──┬─┐│┌───┬──┬─┐│┌────┬───┬──┬─┐│┌─────┬────┬───┬──┬─┐│ > > ││a│││ab│b│││abc│bc│c│││abcd│bcd│cd│d│││abcde│bcde│cde│de│e││ > > │└─┘│└──┴─┘│└───┴──┴─┘│└────┴───┴──┴─┘│└─────┴────┴───┴──┴─┘│ > > └───┴──────┴──────────┴───────────────┴─────────────────────┘ > > ;<@(<\.)\'abcde' > > ┌─┬──┬─┬───┬──┬─┬────┬───┬──┬─┬─────┬────┬───┬──┬─┐ > > │a│ab│b│abc│bc│c│abcd│bcd│cd│d│abcde│bcde│cde│de│e│ > > └─┴──┴─┴───┴──┴─┴────┴───┴──┴─┴─────┴────┴───┴──┴─┘ > > > > Using infix with all the substring lengths almost gets us there but there > > are a lot of empty cells : > > , (>:i.5) <\'abcde' > > ┌─┬─┬─┬─┬─┬──┬──┬──┬──┬┬───┬───┬───┬┬┬────┬────┬┬┬┬─────┬┬┬┬┐ > > │a│b│c│d│e│ab│bc│cd│de││abc│bcd│cde│││abcd│bcde││││abcde│││││ > > └─┴─┴─┴─┴─┴──┴──┴──┴──┴┴───┴───┴───┴┴┴────┴────┴┴┴┴─────┴┴┴┴┘ > > > > Is there an elegant way of eliminating the empty cells ? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jimmy > > > > PS Adding oblique and transpose gives the same order as R.E.Boss's > > expression : > > ; <@, /. |: (>:i.5) <\'abcde' > > ┌─┬──┬─┬───┬──┬─┬────┬───┬──┬─┬─────┬────┬───┬──┬─┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┐ > > │a│ab│b│abc│bc│c│abcd│bcd│cd│d│abcde│bcde│cde│de│e│││││││││││ > > └─┴──┴─┴───┴──┴─┴────┴───┴──┴─┴─────┴────┴───┴──┴─┴┴┴┴┴┴┴┴┴┴┘ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm