RosettaCodeData/Task/Range-extraction/Perl/range-extraction-1.pl

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Perl

sub rangext {
my $str = join ' ', @_;
1 while $str =~ s{([+-]?\d+) ([+-]?\d+)}
{$1.(abs($2 - $1) == 1 ? '~' : ',').$2}eg; # abs for neg ranges
$str =~ s/(\d+)~(?:[+-]?\d+~)+([+-]?\d+)/$1-$2/g;
$str =~ tr/~/,/;
return $str;
}
# Test and display
my @test = qw(0 1 2 4 6 7 8 11 12 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 35 36
37 38 39);
print rangext(@test), "\n";