Question

Is there any syntax/package allowing quick filling of java arrays with ranges of numbers, like in perl?

e.g.

int[] arr = new int[1000];
arr=(1..500,301..400,1001..1400); // returns [1,2,3,4,...,500,301,302,...,400,1001,1002,...1400]

Also, it here a package that allows getting the n-th number in such list of numbers as the above, without actually creating the array (which can be huge)?

e.g.

BunchOfRangesType bort = new BunchOfRangesType("1..500","301..400","1001..1400");
bort.get(0); // return 1
bort.get(500); // return 301
bort.get(501); // return 302

It’s not too difficult to implement, but I guess it might be common so maybe it was already done.

Answer 1

Not quite as clean as True Soft’s answer, but you can use Google Guava to the same effect:

public class Test {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //one liner
        int[] array = toArray(newLinkedList(concat(range(1, 10), range(500, 1000))));

        //more readable
        Iterable<Integer> values = concat(range(1, 10), range(500, 1000));
        List<Integer> list = newLinkedList(values);
        int[] array = toArray(list);

    }

    public static List<Integer> range(int min, int max) {
        List<Integer> list = newLinkedList();
        for (int i = min; i <= max; i++) {
            list.add(i);
        }

        return list;
    }

}

Note you need a few static imports for this to work.