How to compare elements in a [[]]? - list

I am dealing with small program with Haskell. Probably the answer is really simple but I try and get no result.
So one of the part in my program is the list:
first = [(3,3),(4,6),(7,7),(5,43),(9,9),(32,1),(43,43) ..]
and according to that list I want to make new one with element that are equal in the () =:
result = [3,7,9,43, ..]

Even though you appear to have not made the most minimal amount of effort to solve this question by yourself, I will give you the answer because it is so trivial and because Haskell is a great language.
Create a function with this signature:
findIdentical :: [(Int, Int)] -> [Int]
It takes a list of tuples and returns a list of ints.
Implement it like this:
findIdentical [] = []
findIdentical ((a,b) : xs)
| a == b = a : (findIdentical xs)
| otherwise = findIdentical xs
As you can see, findIdentical is a recursive function that compares a tuple for equality between both items, and then adds it to the result list if there is found equality.

You can do this for instance with list comprehension. We iterate over every tuple f,s) in first, so we write (f,s) <- first in the right side of the list comprehension, and need to filter on the fact that f and s are equal, so f == s. In that case we add f (or s) to the result. So:
result = [ f | (f,s) <- first, f == s ]
We can turn this into a function that takes as input a list of 2-tuples [(a,a)], and compares these two elements, and returns a list [a]:
f :: Eq a => [(a,a)] -> [a]
f dat = [f | (f,s) <- dat, f == s ]

An easy way to do this is to use the Prelude's filter function, which has the type definition:
filter :: (a -> Bool) -> [a] -> [a]
All you need to do is supply predicate on how to filter the elements in the list, and the list to filter. You can accomplish this easily below:
filterList :: (Eq a) => [(a, a)] -> [a]
filterList xs = [x | (x, y) <- filter (\(a, b) -> a == b) xs]
Which behaves as expected:
*Main> filterList [(3,3),(4,6),(7,7),(5,43),(9,9),(32,1),(43,43)]
[3,7,9,43]

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Function to find number of occurrences in list

So I already have a function that finds the number of occurrences in a list using maps.
occur :: [a] -> Map a a
occur xs = fromListWith (+) [(x, 1) | x <- xs]
For example if a list [1,1,2,3,3] is inputted, the code will output [(1,2),(2,1),(3,2)], and for a list [1,2,1,1] the output would be [(1,3),(2,1)].
I was wondering if there's any way I can change this function to use foldr instead to eliminate the use of maps.
You can make use of foldr where the accumulator is a list of key-value pairs. Each "step" we look if the list already contains a 2-tuple for the given element. If that is the case, we increment the corresponding value. If the item x does not yet exists, we add (x, 1) to that list.
Our function thus will look like:
occur :: Eq => [a] -> [(a, Int)]
occur = foldr incMap []
where incMap thus takes an item x and a list of 2-tuples. We can make use of recursion here to update the "map" with:
incMap :: Eq a => a -> [(a, Int)] -> [(a, Int)]
incMap x = go
where go [] = [(x, 1)]
go (y2#(y, ny): ys)
| x == y = … : ys
| otherwise = y2 : …
where I leave implementing the … parts as an exercise.
This algorithm is not very efficient, since it takes O(n) to increment the map with n the number of 2-tuples in the map. You can also implement incrementing the Map for the given item by using insertWith :: Ord k => (a -> a -> a) -> k -> a -> Map k a -> Map k a, which is more efficient.

Function to find the most frequent element

I am trying to code a function that returns the element that appears the most in a list. So far I have the following
task :: Eq a => [a] -> a
task xs = (map ((\l#(x:xs) -> (x,length l)) (occur (sort xs))))
occur is a function that takes a list and returns a list of pairs with the elements of the inputted list along with the amount of times they appear. So for example for a list [1,1,2,3,3] the output would be [(1,2),(2,1),(3,2)].
However, I am getting some errors related to the arguments of map. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
A map maps every item to another item, so here \l is a 2-tuple, like (1,2), (2, 1) or (3, 2). It thus does not make much sense to work with length l, since length :: Foldable f => f a -> Int will always return one for a 2-tuple: this is because only the second part of the 2-tuple is used in the foldable. But we do not need length in the first place.
What you need is a function that can retrieve the maximum based on the second item of the 2-tuple. We can make use of the maximumOn :: Ord b => (a -> b) -> [a] -> a from the exta package, or we can implement our own function to calculate the maximum on a list of items.
Such function thus should look like:
maximumSnd :: Ord b => [(a, b)] -> (a, b)
maximumSnd [] = error "Empty list"
maximumSnd (x:xs) = go xs x
where go [] m = m
go (x#(xa, xb):xs) (ya, yb)
| xb > yb = go … … -- (1)
| otherwise = go … … -- (2)
Here (1) should be implemented such that we make a recursive call but work with x as the new maximum we found thus far. (2) should make a recursive call with the same thus far maximum.
Once we have implemented the maxSnd function, we can use this function as a helper function for:
task :: Eq a => [a] -> (a, Int)
task xs = maxSnd (occur xs)
or we can use fst :: (a, b) -> a to retrieve the first item of the 2-tuple:
task :: Eq a => [a] -> a
task xs = (fst . maxSnd) (occur xs)
In case there are two characters with a maximum number of elements, the maximumSnd will return the first one in the list of occurrences.

Haskell list to unitary sublist

I'm having problems turning a list to a unitary sublist
sublists :: [a] -> [[a]]
sublists [] = [[]]
sublists (x:xs) = [x:ys | ys <- sub] ++ sub
where sub = sublists xs
I need a function that given
sublists [True,False]
returns
[[True],[False]] instead of [[True,False],[True],[False],[]]
But I just don´t know how and feel like punching my computer in the face.
I hope I am clear. Thanks!
So you want a function that converts a to [a]. Okay...
makeList = \x -> [x]
(why did I write it as a lambda? keep reading)
So you want a function that converts a to [a] within a list. Okay...
makeListsInList = map (\x -> [x])
done.
You can use the function pure :: Applicative f => a -> f a to wrap values into a list, since the instance of Applicative for [] wraps elements in a singleton list.
So you can define your function as:
sublists :: [a] -> [[a]]
sublists = map pure
For example:
Prelude> sublists [True, False, False, True]
[[True],[False],[False],[True]]

Haskell function that outputs all combinations within the input list that add to the input number

I want to write a function in haskell that takes a list of integers and an integer value as input and outputs a list of all the lists that contain combinations of elements that add up to the input integer.
For example:
myFunc [3,7,5,9,13,17] 30 = [[13,17],[3,5,9,13]]
Attempt:
myFunc :: [Integer] -> Integer -> [[Integer]]
myFunc list sm = case list of
[] -> []
[x]
| x == sm -> [x]
| otherwise -> []
(x : xs)
| x + myFunc xs == sm -> [x] ++ myFunc[xs]
| otherwise -> myFunc xs
My code produces just one combination and that combination must be consecutive, which is not what I want to achieve
Write a function to create all subsets
f [] = [[]]
f (x:xs) = f xs ++ map (x:) (f xs)
then use the filter
filter ((==30) . sum) $ f [3,7,5,9,13,17]
[[13,17],[3,5,9,13]]
as suggested by #Ingo you can prune the list while it's generated, for example
f :: (Num a, Ord a) => [a] -> [[a]]
f [] = [[]]
f (x:xs) = f xs ++ (filter ((<=30) . sum) $ map (x:) $ f xs)
should work faster than generating all 2^N elements.
You can use subsequences from Data.List to give you every possible combination of values, then filter based on your requirement that they add to 30.
myFunc :: [Integer] -> Integer -> [[Integer]]
myFunc list sm =
filter (\x -> sum x == sm) $ subsequences list
An alternative would be to use a right fold:
fun :: (Foldable t, Num a, Eq a) => t a -> a -> [[a]]
fun = foldr go $ \a -> if a == 0 then [[]] else []
where go x f a = f a ++ ((x:) <$> f (a - x))
then,
\> fun [3,7,5,9,13,17] 30
[[13,17],[3,5,9,13]]
\> fun [3,7,5,9,13,17] 12
[[7,5],[3,9]]
An advantage of this approach is that it does not create any lists unless it adds up to the desired value.
Whereas, an approach based on filtering, will create all the possible sub-sequence lists only to drop most of them during filtering step.
Here is an alternate solution idea: Generate a list of lists that sum up to the target number, i.e.:
[30]
[29,1]
[28,2]
[28,1,1]
...
and only then filter the ones that could be build from your given list.
Pro: could be much faster, especially if your input list is long and your target number comparatively small, such that the list of list of summands is much smaller than the list of subsets of your input list.
Con: does only work when 0 is not in the game.
Finally, you can it do both ways and write a function that decides which algorthm will be faster given some input list and the target number.

Flatten a list of lists

I have to write a function that flattens a list of lists.
For example flatten [] = [] or flatten [1,2,3,4] = [1,2,3,4] or flatten [[1,2],[3],4,5]] = [1,2,3,4,5]
I'm having trouble with the being able to match the type depending on what is given to the flatten function.
Here's what I have:
data A a = B a | C [a] deriving (Show, Eq, Ord)
flatten::(Show a, Eq a, Ord a)=>A a -> A a
flatten (C []) = (C [])
flatten (C (x:xs) ) = (C flatten x) ++ (C flatten xs)
flatten (B a) = (C [a])
From what I can tell the issue is that the ++ operator is expecting a list for both of its arguments and I'm trying to give it something of type A. I've added the A type so the function can either get a single element or a list of elements.
Does anyone know a different way to do this differently, or explain what I can do to fix the type error?
It's a bit unclear what you are asking for, but flattening a list of list is a standard function called concat in the prelude with type signature [[a]] -> [a].
If you make a data type of nested lists as you have started above, maybe you want to adjust your data type to something like this:
data Lists a = List [a] | ListOfLists [Lists a]
Then you can flatten these to a list;
flatten :: Lists a -> [a]
flatten (List xs) = xs
flatten (ListOfLists xss) = concatMap flatten xss
As a test,
> flatten (ListOfLists [List [1,2],List [3],ListOfLists [List [4],List[5]]])
[1,2,3,4,5]
Firstly, the A type is on the right track but I don't think it's quite correct. You want it to be able to flatten arbitrarily nested lists, so a value of type "A a" should be able to contain values of type "A a":
data A a = B a | C [A a]
Secondly, the type of the function should be slightly different. Instead of returning a value of type "A a", you probably want it to return just a list of a, since by definition the function is always returning a flat list. So the type signature is thus:
flatten :: A a -> [a]
Also note that no typeclass constraints are necessary -- this function is completely generic since it does not look at the list's elements at all.
Here's my implementation:
flatten (B a) = [a]
flatten (C []) = []
flatten (C (x:xs)) = flatten x ++ flatten (C xs)
this one liner will do the job. Although as it was mentioned by Malin the type signature is different:
flatten :: [[a]] -> [a]
flatten xs = (\z n -> foldr (\x y -> foldr z y x) n xs) (:) []
simple test
frege> li = [[3,4,2],[1,9,9],[5,8]]
frege> flatten li
[3,4,2,1,9,9,5,8]
Flatten via list comprehension.
flatten arr = [y | x<- arr, y <- x]