1Graph::UnionFind(3)   User Contributed Perl Documentation  Graph::UnionFind(3)
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NAME

6       Graph::UnionFind - union-find data structures
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SYNOPSIS

9           use Graph::UnionFind;
10           my $uf = Graph::UnionFind->new;
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12           # Add the vertices to the data structure.
13           $uf->add($u);
14           $uf->add($v);
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16           # Join the partitions of the vertices.
17           $uf->union( $u, $v );
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19           # Find the partitions the vertices belong to
20           # in the union-find data structure.  If they
21           # are equal, they are in the same partition.
22           # If the vertex has not been seen,
23           # undef is returned.
24           my $pu = $uf->find( $u );
25           my $pv = $uf->find( $v );
26           $uf->same($u, $v) # Equal to $pu eq $pv.
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28           # Has the union-find seen this vertex?
29           $uf->has( $v )
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DESCRIPTION

32       Union-find is a special data structure that can be used to track the
33       partitioning of a set into subsets (a problem known also as disjoint
34       sets).
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36       Graph::UnionFind() is used for Graph::connected_components(),
37       Graph::connected_component(), and Graph::same_connected_components() if
38       you specify a true "union_find" parameter when you create an undirected
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41       Note that union-find is one way: you cannot (easily) 'ununion' vertices
42       once you have 'unioned' them.  This means that if you delete edges from
43       a "union_find" graph, you will get wrong results from the
44       Graph::connected_components(), Graph::connected_component(), and
45       Graph::same_connected_components().
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47   API
48       add
49               $uf->add($v)
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51           Add the vertex v to the union-find.
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53       union
54               $uf->union($u, $v)
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56           Add the edge u-v to the union-find.  Also implicitly adds the
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59       has
60               $uf->has($v)
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62           Return true if the vertex v has been added to the union-find, false
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65       find
66               $uf->find($v)
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68           Return the union-find partition the vertex v belongs to, or "undef"
69           if it has not been added.
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71       new
72               $uf = Graph::UnionFind->new()
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74           The constructor.
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76       same
77               $uf->same($u, $v)
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79           Return true of the vertices belong to the same union-find partition
80           the vertex v belongs to, false otherwise.
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83       Jarkko Hietaniemi jhi@iki.fi
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LICENSE

86       This module is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.
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90perl v5.32.1                      2021-01-27               Graph::UnionFind(3)
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