[erlang-questions] Sets from list then to list? (found it)

[Alexander Lamb]

Sorry for replying too fast. I look into the code of usort and found  
that to be equal you need A < B and B < A to be true (which was not  
the case in my function...)

THanks,

Alex
Le 7 avr. 08 à 11:57, Alexander Lamb a écrit :
> Well, spoke to fast. usort/1 works fine, but when I provide my own
> function, it doesn't remove the duplicates.
> It looks like this is because my sort function can only return true or
> false. What should it return to usort/2 removes correctly duplicates.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
>
> Le 7 avr. 08 à 11:18, Alexander Lamb a écrit :
>> Thanks, usort(Fun, List) is the solution!
>>
>> (I need to sort according to my own algorithm)
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> Le 7 avr. 08 à 11:07, Hynek Vychodil a écrit :
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Kostis Sagonas <kostis@REDACTED>
>>> wrote:
>>> Alexander Lamb wrote:
>>>> Hello (list:-)
>>>>
>>>> Using list comprehension, I am building a list of tuples that I  
>>>> want
>>>> unique and sorted.
>>>>
>>>> Is this a correct way of doing it:
>>>>
>>>> Result = sets:to_list(sets:from_list([ {A,B} || {_X,_Y,A,_Z,B} <-
>>>> MyList]))
>>>>
>>>> Then sort the Result.
>>>>
>>>> The alternative would be to use one of the lists functions to copy
>>>> elements into a new list and testing first at each insert if the
>>>> element is already present.
>>>>
>>>> What is best?
>>>
>>> None of the two.  Check out lists:usort/1.
>>>
>>> 1> lists:usort([{1,2},{1,3},{0,1},{1,2}]).
>>> [{0,1},{1,2},{1,3}]
>>>
>>> Yup, faster one :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> Kostis
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