NAME

List::StackBy - Group runs of similar elements

SYNOPSIS

use List::StackBy;

my @uniq = map { $_->[0] } stack_by { uc } qw/A B b A b B A/;
# A B A b A

my @by_col1 = map { /^\s*(\d+)/ ? $1 : undef } (
  "123,foo",
  "123,bar",
  "456,baz",
);

# ["123,foo", "123,bar"],
# ["456,baz"]

DESCRIPTION

This module provides the function stack_by.

FUNCTIONS

stack_by { code } @list

Applies the code block to each item in the list and returns a list of arrays containing runs of elements for which the code block returned the same value. Items for which the code block returns an undefined value are isolated from the rest.

EXPORTS

stack_by by default.

AUTHOR / COPYRIGHT / LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2018 Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjoern@hoehrmann.de>.
This module is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.