Why not to code B-Tree yourself?
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my %distances = (
100 => 'London',
200 => 'Paris',
300 => 'Rome',
600 => 'Berlin'
);
my @distances = sort {$a<=>$b} keys %distances;
sub make_btree {
my $first = shift;
my $nof = shift;
if ( $nof == 1 ) {
return { Value => $distances[$first] },
}
else {
my $m = int($nof/2);
my $val = ( $distances[$first+$m-1] + $distances[$first+$m] )/
+2;
return {
Value => $val,
Left => make_btree($first, $m),
Right => make_btree($first+$m, $nof-$m),
}
}
}
my $BTREE = make_btree(0, scalar @distances);
#use Data::Dumper;
#print Dumper( $BTREE );
sub closest_city {
my $key = shift;
my $btree = $BTREE;
while ( exists $btree->{Left} ) {
my $v = $btree->{Value};
$btree = $btree->{ $key<$v ? 'Left' : 'Right' }
}
$distances{ $btree->{Value} };
}
print q{closest_city(5)="}, closest_city(5), qq{"\n};
print q{closest_city(149)="}, closest_city(149), qq{"\n};
print q{closest_city(150)="}, closest_city(150), qq{"\n};
print q{closest_city(203)="}, closest_city(203), qq{"\n};
print q{closest_city(290)="}, closest_city(290), qq{"\n};
print q{closest_city(500)="}, closest_city(500), qq{"\n};
print q{closest_city(5000)="}, closest_city(5000), qq{"\n};
Output:
closest_city(5)="London"
closest_city(149)="London"
closest_city(150)="Paris"
closest_city(203)="Paris"
closest_city(290)="Rome"
closest_city(500)="Berlin"
closest_city(5000)="Berlin"
Following B-Tree will be generated in this example:
250
/ \
150 450
/ | | \
100 200 300 600
| | | |
London Paris Rome Berlin
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