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NumRev

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: perl 5.004, patch 04
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NAME

Heap::Elem::NumRev - Perl extension for Reversed Numeric Heap Elements

SYNOPSIS

  use Heap::Elem::NumRev( NumRElem );  use Heap::Fibonacci;

  my $heap = Heap::Fibonacci->new;  my $elem;

  foreach $i ( 1..100 ) {      $elem = NumRElem( $i );      $heap->add( $elem );  }

  while( defined( $elem = $heap->extract_minimum ) ) {      print "Largest is ", $elem->val, "\n";  }

DESCRIPTION

Heap::Elem::NumRev is used to wrap numeric values into an elementthat can be managed on a heap. The top of the heap will havethe largest element still remaining. (See the Heap::Elem::Num manpageif you want the heap to always return the smallest element.)

The details of the Elem interface are described in the Heap::Elem manpage.

The details of using a Heap interface are described in the Heap manpage.

AUTHOR

John Macdonald, jmmAATTelegant.com

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