Special Ranges

Create arrays from ranges of dictionary terms (eg weekdays, months, seasons, etc)

Description

Unlike bash, Murex also supports some special ranges:

» a [mon..sun]
» a [monday..sunday]
» a [jan..dec]
» a [january..december]
» a [spring..winter]

Please refer to a (mkarray) for more detailed usage of mkarray.

Usage

a: [start..end] -> <stdout>
a: [start..end,start..end] -> <stdout>
a: [start..end][start..end] -> <stdout>

All usages also work with ja and ta as well, eg:

ja: [start..end] -> <stdout>
ta: data-type [start..end] -> <stdout>

You can also inline arrays with the %[] syntax, eg:

%[start..end]

Examples

» a [summer..winter]
summer
autumn
winter

Detail

Case Sensitivity

Special ranges are case aware. If the ranges are uppercase then the return will be uppercase. If the ranges are title case (capital first letter) then the return will be in title case.

lower case

» a [monday..wednesday]
monday
tuesday
wednesday

Title Case

» a [Monday..Wednesday]
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday

UPPER CASE

» a [MONDAY..WEDNESDAY]
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY

Looping vs Negative Ranges

Where the special ranges differ from a regular range is they cannot cannot down. eg a: [3..1] would output

» a [3..1]
3
2
1

however a negative range in special ranges will cycle through to the end of the range and then loop back from the start:

» a [Thursday..Wednesday]
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday

This decision was made because generally with ranges of this type, you would more often prefer to cycle through values rather than iterate backwards through the list.

If you did want to reverse then pipe the output into another tool:

» a [Monday..Friday] -> mtac
Friday
Thursday
Wednesday
Tuesday
Monday

There are other UNIX tools which aren’t data type aware but would work in this specific scenario:

Supported Dictionary Terms

Below is the source for the supported dictionary terms:

package mkarray

var mapRanges = []map[string]int{
    rangeWeekdayLong,
    rangeWeekdayShort,
    rangeMonthLong,
    rangeMonthShort,
    rangeSeason,
    rangeMoon,
}

var rangeWeekdayLong = map[string]int{
    "monday":    1,
    "tuesday":   2,
    "wednesday": 3,
    "thursday":  4,
    "friday":    5,
    "saturday":  6,
    "sunday":    7,
}

var rangeWeekdayShort = map[string]int{
    "mon": 1,
    "tue": 2,
    "wed": 3,
    "thu": 4,
    "fri": 5,
    "sat": 6,
    "sun": 7,
}

var rangeMonthLong = map[string]int{
    "january":   1,
    "february":  2,
    "march":     3,
    "april":     4,
    "may":       5,
    "june":      6,
    "july":      7,
    "august":    8,
    "september": 9,
    "october":   10,
    "november":  11,
    "december":  12,
}

var rangeMonthShort = map[string]int{
    "jan": 1,
    "feb": 2,
    "mar": 3,
    "apr": 4,
    "may": 5,
    "jun": 6,
    "jul": 7,
    "aug": 8,
    "sep": 9,
    "oct": 10,
    "nov": 11,
    "dec": 12,
}

var rangeSeason = map[string]int{
    "spring": 1,
    "summer": 2,
    "autumn": 3,
    "winter": 4,
}

var rangeMoon = map[string]int{
    "new moon":        1,
    "waxing crescent": 2,
    "first quarter":   3,
    "waxing gibbous":  4,
    "full moon":       5,
    "waning gibbous":  6,
    "third quarter":   7,
    "waning crescent": 8,
}

See Also


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