path mapping

Hi,

I have a list as follows:

{0} (N=144)

I made a mapping as follows:

{A}(i) -> {i/4}

This divides the original list in a list with 37 paths:

{0} (N=3)

{1} (N=3)

{2} (N=5)

{3} (N=3)

{4} (N=5)

... etc...

I need 36 paths and so I tried the following mapping:

{A}(i) -> {i/(144/35)}

that works in that I get my 36 paths but again the number of elements in each path is not constant.

I need 4 elements in each.

Any clues?

thanks,

wim

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Pep Tornabell on March 26, 2010 at 4:17am

Cull, graft and weave...

I imagine you can remap the way you want, but I can't help you that way, sorry...

Permalink Reply by Damien Alomar on March 26, 2010 at 7:23am

Your problem is a division/rounding one, not anything that has to do with the path mapper. The path mapper needs integers, so when you have 7/4 (which equals 1.75) the path mapper has to decide whether that's 1 or 2. Right now its doing this by rounding, which is not what you want. This is subtle, but what you need to do is whole number division, which will only return the integer result of the division, not the whole value. To do this just use a backslash(\) instead of a forward one, so your output path will be {i\4}

Permalink Reply by Wim R.M. Dekeyser on March 26, 2010 at 7:46am

magic.
That works. Awesome.
Thanks Damien!

cheers,
wim

Permalink Reply by Brent Watanabe on March 26, 2010 at 9:16am

is there documentation somewhere that describes the backslash vs. forward slash?

Or is that just common knowledge?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 26, 2010 at 9:28am

There's different kinds of division operators. It's a standard part of VBScript and VB.NET language.

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Permalink Reply by Damien Alomar on March 26, 2010 at 10:52am

There are 3 flavors of division that's supported. Regular division, whole number division, and modulus division. I am going to make the assumption that you know what regular division is, and I just described above what whole number division does. Modulus division does exactly the opposite of whole number division; the fractional/decimal value would be returned instead of the normal result. Modulus division is a little weird in that its considered an operator (like +, -, or *), but within VB and the expression editor you'd actually use the keyword Mod. So 7 Mod 4 would be .75. Within C# and other c style languages you'll generally see the percent symbol (%) to signify modulus division.

Permalink Reply by Pep Tornabell on March 26, 2010 at 9:17am

wow... then the backslash what does exactly...?

thanks

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