RFP: libset-intspan-perl -- Manages sets of integers
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
I have a personal package of this built, but I don't feel up to
maintaining it. If someone else wants to take it on, feel free to
contact me for my version.
DESCRIPTION
Set::IntSpan manages sets of integers. It is optimized for sets that
have long runs of consecutive integers. These arise, for example, in
.newsrc files, which maintain lists of articles:
alt.foo: 1-21,28,31
alt.bar: 1-14192,14194,14196-14221
Sets are stored internally in a run-length coded form. This provides
for both compact storage and efficient computation. In particular,
set operations can be performed directly on the encoded
representation.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1996-1998 by Steven McDougall. This module is free
software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as Perl itself.
-itai
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