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// This is an algorithm for doing binary search of a list in Frink.
//
// arguments:
// list: an ordered list of items
//
// item: the item to search for in the list
//
// orderFunction: a two-argument function of the form {|a,b| ... } where
// the function returns -1 if a<b, 0 if a==b, and 1 if a > b
// (such as the <=> operator returns. This is the default
// comparison if no order function is passed in.)
//
// This returns the index of the item to insert *before* (for example,
// using the method list.insert[pos, item] ) to put the item in the right
// order. If the item is found anywhere in the list, this returns the index
// of the matching item in the list. If the item is not found in the
// list, this still returns the index before which it should be inserted.
binarySearch[list, item, orderFunction = {|a,b| a <=> b}] :=
{
start = 0
end = length[list] - 1
var current
var comp
while (start <= end)
{
current = (end + start) div 2
comp = orderFunction[item, list@current]
if comp == 0
return current
if (comp == -1)
end = current - 1
else
start = current + 1
}
return start
}
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