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JavaScript: Unique ids to multidimensional array based on the unique levels in array

I'm trying to build a list of all the unique levels in a multidimensional array of objects.

Assuming this data...

let levels = [
  ["P", "B", "L"],
  ["A", "B", "L3"],
  ["A", "B", "L3"],
  ["P", "B", "M"],
  ["P", "C", "L"],
  ["A", "C", "L3"]
];

I need to end up with an array structure like this:

const result = [
  [ 1, 'P', 11, 'P.B', 111, 'P.B.L' ],
  [ 1, 'P', 11, 'P.B', 112, 'P.B.M' ],
  [ 1, 'P', 12, 'P.C', 121, 'P.C.L' ],
  [ 2, 'A', 21, 'A.B', 211, 'A.B.L3' ],
  [ 2, 'A', 22, 'A.C', 221, 'A.C.L3' ]
];

Note:

Where each entry is an array of a unique level.

Level ids: 
1 => level 1 
11 => level 1 and its sub level
111 => level 1, its sub level and sub level's level

On each new level 1 the id will increment as follows for other sub-levels and sub level's level:
2 => new level 1 
21 => new level 1 and its new sub-level
211 => new level 1, its new sub-level and new sub level's level

I'm having real trouble calculating the level ids for each unique pair. So far I have tried to return the unique pairs only as below:

function updateLevels(levels) {
  const { result } = levels.reduce(
    (acc, crr) => {
      const l1Key = crr[0];
      const l2Key = `${l1Key}.${crr[1]}`;
      const l3Key = `${l2Key}.${crr[2]}`;

      if (!acc.checkMap[l3Key]) {
        acc.checkMap[l3Key] = true;
        acc.result.push([l1Key, l2Key, l3Key]);
      }

      return acc;
    },
    {
      checkMap: {},
      result: [],
    }
  );
  return result;
}

const result = 
[
  [ 'P', 'P.B', 'P.B.L' ],
  [ 'A', 'A.B', 'A.B.L3' ],
  [ 'P', 'P.B', 'P.B.M' ],
  [ 'P', 'P.C', 'P.C.L' ],
  [ 'A', 'A.C', 'A.C.L3' ]
]
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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Basically this solution needs two steps:

  1. Get an array with numbers and connected strings.

    You could take an object for keeping the level information and check if the actual data set exists with a flag add for pushing a new array to the result set.

  2. Sort the result by taking odd indices of the array.

const
    getUnique = array => {
        const levels = { _: 0, data: [] };
        
        return array
            .reduce((r, a) => {
                let add = false;
                const
                    temp = [],
                    final = a.reduce((l, v, i, a) => {
                        if (!l[v]) {
                            l[v] = {
                                _: 0,
                                data: [(l.data[0] || 0) * 10 + ++l._, (l.data[1] || '' ) + (l.data[1] ? '.' : '') + v]
                            };
                            add = true;
                        }
                        temp.push(...l[v].data);
                        return l[v];
                    }, levels);

                if (add) r.push(temp);

                return r;
            }, [])
            .sort((a, b) => {
                let i = 0, r = 0;
                while (i < a.length && !r) {
                    r = a[i] - b[i];
                    i += 2;
                }
                return r;
            });
    },
    levels = [["P", "B", "L"], ["A", "B", "L3"], ["A", "B", "L3"], ["P", "B", "M"], ["P", "C", "L"], ["A", "C", "L3"]],
    result = getUnique(levels);

result.forEach(a => console.log(...a));

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report
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