#! perl use strict; use warnings FATAL => 'all'; use experimental 'smartmatch'; use List::MoreUtils 'zip'; use Test::More tests => 7; while () { my ($left, $right) = split /->/; my @array = split ' ', $left; my @expected = split ' ', $right; my $aa = unsort(\@array); ok( @$aa ~~ @expected ); } sub unsort { my $aref = shift; @$aref = sort { $a <=> $b } @$aref; my %nums = map { $_ => undef } @$aref; return $aref if scalar keys %nums == 1; my $half = int(($#$aref + 2) / 2); if (scalar keys %nums == 2) { if ($aref->[$half - 1] == $aref->[$#$aref]) { @$aref = (@$aref[$half .. $#$aref ], @$aref[0 .. $half - 1]); @$aref[$half - 1, $#$aref] = @$aref[$#$aref, $half - 1]; } } else { for my $i (0 .. $half - 1) { last if $i + $half > $#$aref; if ($aref->[$i] == $aref->[$i + $half - 1]) { @$aref = (@$aref[$i .. $#$aref], @$aref[0 .. $i - 1]); } } } my @first = @$aref[0 .. $half - 1]; my @second = @$aref[$half .. $#$aref ]; @$aref = zip @first, @second; pop @$aref unless defined $aref->[-1]; return $aref; } __DATA__ 0 0 1 -> 0 1 0 0 1 1 -> 1 0 1 1 2 3 3 2 2 1 -> 1 2 1 3 2 3 2 3 2 1 2 1 3 2 -> 1 2 1 3 2 3 2 1 3 3 3 3 1 1 -> 3 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 1 1 2 3 -> 1 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 2 2 1 -> 1 2 1 2 1 3 1 3 2