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Tallying overall frequency of characters in a set of strings by position

by Anonymous Monk
on May 11, 2016 at 13:36 UTC ( [id://1162755]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have an array containing a set of strings; all strings are of equal length but the length is variable dependent upon user argument. As an example:

AABBC BAABC AABBD AACBB

I want to calculate the frequency of each unique character present in the collection, at each position across all strings. Using the above strings, the desired result would be:

A B C D 1 0.75 0.25 0.00 0.00 2 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 3 0.25 0.50 0.25 0.00 4 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 5 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.25

Does anybody know of a way to accomplish this in a succinct manner? Currently i've got this chunk of code within my script:

foreach my $segment (@collection) { foreach $i (0..length($segment)) { if (substr($segment,$i,1) eq "A") { $score[$i][1] = 1; $score[$i][2] = 0; $score[$i][3] = 0; $score[$i][4] = 0; } elsif (substr($segment,$i,1) eq "B") { $score[$i][1] = 0; $score[$i][2] = 1; $score[$i][3] = 0; $score[$i][4] = 0; } elsif (substr($segment,$i,1) eq "C") { $score[$i][1] = 0; $score[$i][2] = 0; $score[$i][3] = 1; $score[$i][4] = 0; } elsif (substr($segment,$i,1) eq "D") { $score[$i][1] = 0; $score[$i][2] = 0; $score[$i][3] = 0; $score[$i][4] = 1; } } }

Which is a very long-winded and literal way of thinking about scoring each character (before an average would be taken). I would also need to push the result each time so that multiple segments (strings) could be accommodated - but i'm not sure how and would prefer to find a better way of doing this..

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Re: Tallying overall frequency of characters in a set of strings by position
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 11, 2016 at 13:51 UTC

    Like this?:

    Perhaps this is closer to what you are after (Updated: corrected output ordering):

    #! perl -slw use strict; use Data::Dump qw[ pp ]; my @freq; my @data = qw[ AABBC BAABC AABBD AACBB ]; for my $s ( @data ) { ++$freq[ $_ ]{ substr $s, $_, 1 } for 0 .. length( $s ) -1; } ##pp \@freq; for my $pos ( @freq ) { ( $pos->{ $_ } //= 0 ) /= 4 for 'A' .. 'D'; } ##pp \@freq; print join "\t", '', 'A'..'D'; for my $pos ( 0 .. $#freq ) { printf "%2d\t%s\n", $pos+1, join "\t", map sprintf("%.2f", $_ ), + @{ $freq[ $pos ] }{ 'A' .. 'D' }; } __DATA__ C:\test>1162755 A B C D 1 0.75 0.25 0.00 0.00 2 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 3 0.25 0.50 0.25 0.00 4 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 5 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.25

    Another variations that doesn't hard code the keys:

    #! perl -slw use strict; use Data::Dump qw[ pp ]; my( @freq, %c, $c ); #my @data = qw[ AABBC BAABC AABBD AACBB ]; my @data = qw[ AABBC BAABC AABBD AECBBF ]; for my $s ( @data ) { ++$freq[ $_ ]{ $c = substr $s, $_, 1 }, undef $c{ $c } for 0 .. le +ngth( $s ) -1; } ##pp \@freq; my @oK = sort keys %c; for my $pos ( @freq ) { ( $pos->{ $_ } //= 0 ) /= 4 for @oK; } ##pp \@freq; print join "\t", '', @oK; for my $pos ( 0 .. $#freq ) { printf "%2d\t%s\n", $pos+1, join "\t", map sprintf("%.2f", $_ ), + @{ $freq[ $pos ] }{ @oK }; } __DATA__ C:\test>1162755 A B C D E F 1 0.75 0.25 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2 0.75 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.25 0.00 3 0.25 0.50 0.25 0.00 0.00 0.00 4 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.25 0.00 0.00 6 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.25

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Re: Tallying overall frequency of characters in a set of strings by position
by TheDamian (Vicar) on May 12, 2016 at 08:30 UTC
    Just for interest, here's a Perl 6 solution that works for arbitrary sets of input characters and arbitrary input lengths:
    #! /usr/bin/env perl6 use v6; my @data = < AABBC BAABC AABBD AACBB >; # Use mixhashes (self-totalling, and they default to zero) my @freq = MixHash.new xx max @data».chars; # Count everything for @data».comb -> @chars { for @chars.kv -> $pos, $char { @freq[$pos]{$char}++; } } # Column labels my @labels = @data.join.comb.unique.sort; say join "\t", '', @labels; # Table rows for @freq.kv -> $pos, %score { say join "\t", ($pos+1).fmt("%2d"), %score{@labels}.map( * / %score.total )».fmt("%.2f") }
    ...and the output:
    A B C D 1 0.75 0.25 0.00 0.00 2 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 3 0.25 0.50 0.25 0.00 4 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 5 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.25
    Or with:
    my @data = < AABBC BAABC AABBD AECBBF >;
    ...you get:
    A B C D E F 1 0.75 0.25 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2 0.75 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.25 0.00 3 0.25 0.50 0.25 0.00 0.00 0.00 4 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.25 0.00 0.00 6 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00
Re: Tallying overall frequency of characters in a set of strings by position
by Anonymous Monk on May 11, 2016 at 14:23 UTC
    #!/usr/bin/perl # http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1162755 use strict; use warnings; my %score; chomp(my @array = <DATA>); for my $i (1..@array) { $score{$1}[$-[0]] += 1/@array while $array[$i - 1] =~ /(.)/g; } printf " " . "%5s " x @array . "\n", sort keys %score; for my $pos ( 1..length $array[0] ) { printf "%1d" . "%7.2f" x @array . "\n", $pos, map { $score{$_}[$pos - 1] // 0 } sort keys %score; } __DATA__ AABBC BAABC AABBD AACBB
      Thanks! Interesting approach. I don't quite understand the use of the $-[0] special variable here - would you mind explaining?

        $_[0] is the start position of the match in the string.

Re: Tallying overall frequency of characters in a set of strings by position
by johngg (Canon) on May 11, 2016 at 23:48 UTC

    Here's a more long-winded approach that seems to work for extra letters/rows.

    use strict; use warnings; my @strings = qw{ AABABC BAABEC AABFBD AACBDB CBBDEF }; my $div = scalar @strings; my @stringAoA = map { [ split m{} ] } @strings; my %letters; $letters{ $_ } ++ for map { @{ $_ } } @stringAoA; my %scores; for my $posn ( 1 .. length $strings[ 0 ] ) { for my $row ( 0 .. $#stringAoA ) { $scores{ $posn }->{ $stringAoA[ $row ]->[ $posn - 1 ] } ++; } } printf qq{%8s@{ [ q{%8s} x scalar keys %letters ] }\n}, q{}, sort keys %letters; for my $posn (sort { $a <=> $b } keys %scores ) { printf qq{ %8d@{ [ q{%8.2f} x scalar keys %letters ] }\n}, $posn, map { defined $scores{ $posn }->{ $_ } ? $scores{ $posn }->{ $_ } / $div : 0 } sort keys %letters }

    The output.

    A B C D E F 1 0.60 0.20 0.20 0.00 0.00 0.00 2 0.80 0.20 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 3 0.20 0.60 0.20 0.00 0.00 0.00 4 0.20 0.40 0.00 0.20 0.00 0.20 5 0.00 0.40 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.00 6 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.20 0.00 0.20

    I hope this is useful.

    Cheers,

    JohnGG

Re: Tallying overall frequency of characters in a set of strings by position -- oneliner deparsed and explained
by Discipulus (Canon) on May 12, 2016 at 09:16 UTC
    Just for my own amusement a oneliner solution:
    # warning windows doublequotes perl -lnE "$ar[0]++; $ar[pos]{$1}++ while /(.)/g; END{ foreach $row (1..$#ar){print join qq(\t),$row,map{$_,sprintf +('%.2f',$ar[$row]{$_}/$ar[0] )} sort keys %{$ar[$row]}} }" freq.txt 1 A 0.75 B 0.25 2 A 1.00 3 A 0.25 B 0.50 C 0.25 4 B 1.00 5 B 0.25 C 0.50 D 0.25
    The datastructure created is an array where the first element, $ar[0] is a scalar used to hold how many lines we processed. This is because you does not need to track char at position 0, pos starting from 1. Other elements are anonymous hashes where keys are your chars and values are occurrences found (at the position given by the current index of the @ar array we are processing).

    See the datastructure with the help of Data::Dump:

    perl -MData::Dump -lnE "$ar[0]++; $ar[pos]{$1}++ while /(.)/g; END{ dd @ar }" freq.txt ( 4, # el 0 is the lines count { A => 3, B => 1 }, # el 1 contains occurences found at p +osition 1 { A => 4 }, # el 2 .. so on { A => 1, B => 2, C => 1 }, { B => 4 }, { B => 1, C => 2, D => 1 }, )

    Deparsing the first oneliner you can see the whole picture, commented:

    perl -MO=Deparse -lnE "$ar[0]++; $ar[pos]{$1}++ while /(.)/g; END{ foreach $row (1..$#ar){print join qq(\t),$row,map{$_,sprintf +('%.2f',$ar[$row]{$_}/$ar[0] )} sort keys %{$ar[$row]}}}" freq.txt BEGIN { $/ = "\n"; $\ = "\n"; } # implicit initialization BEGIN { $^H{'feature_unicode'} = q(1); $^H{'feature_say'} = q(1); $^H{'feature_state'} = q(1); $^H{'feature_switch'} = q(1); } # our program: LINE: while (defined($_ = <ARGV>)) { # reading all files because of pe +rl -n chomp $_; # automatic handling of end of li +ne given by perl -l ++$ar[0]; # el 0 keeps track of line proces +sed ++$ar[pos $_]{$1} while /(.)/g; # /(.)/g return all char setting +$1 to # the char and making pos returni +ng it's position # so with ++ we augment occurence +s of char given by $1 # found at position given by pos sub END { foreach $row (1 .. $#ar) { # now we process rows of the arra +y starting # from 1, because position coinci +de with array index print join("\t", # joining all following with a ta +b $row, # the row is equal to the positio +n in the string map({ # then foreach key of the hash (t +he el. $row of @a) $_, # the sorted key sprintf('%.2f', $ar[$row]{$_} / $a +r[0]); # it's value divided + # by linecount, formatted } sort(keys %{$ar[$row];}))); } } ; } -e syntax OK

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