I want to split a Array of numbers into N groups, which must be ordered from larger to smaller groups.
For example, in the below code, split an Array of 12 numbers into 5 Arrays, and the result should be evenly split, from large (group) to small:
[1,2,3] [4,5,6] [7,8] [9,10] [11,12]
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// set up known variables
var arr = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12],
numberOfGroups = 5,
groups = [];
// split array into groups of arrays
for(i=0; i<arr.length; i++) {
var groupIdx = Math.floor( i/(arr.length/numberOfGroups) );
// if group array isn't defined, create it
if( !groups[groupIdx] )
groups[groupIdx] = [];
// add arr value to group
groups[groupIdx].push( arr[i] )
}
// Print result
console.log( "data: ", arr );
console.log( "groups: ", groups )
Update:
Thanks to SimpleJ's answer, I could finish my work.
The use case for this is an algorithm which splits HTML lists into "chunked" lists, a think which cannot be easily achieved by using CSS Columns.
Demo page
I'm not 100% sure how this should work on different sized arrays with different group counts, but this works for your 12 digit example:
function chunkArray(arr, chunkCount) {
const chunks = [];
while(arr.length) {
const chunkSize = Math.ceil(arr.length / chunkCount--);
const chunk = arr.slice(0, chunkSize);
chunks.push(chunk);
arr = arr.slice(chunkSize);
}
return chunks;
}
var arr = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12];
console.log( chunkArray(arr, 5) )
I think this is a more of a mathematical problem than a Javascript.
const getGroups = (arr, noOfGroups) => {
const division = Math.floor(arr.length / numberOfGroups);
const groups = [[]];
let remainder = arr.length % numberOfGroups;
let arrIndex = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < noOfGroups; i++) {
for (let j = division + (!!remainder * 1); j >= 0; j--) {
groups[i].push(arr[arrIndex]);
arrIndex += 1;
}
remainder -= 1;
}
return groups;
};
const myGroups = getGroups([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12], 5);
myGroups will be [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8], [9, 10], [11, 12]]
This will work for any number of groups and players
A shorter version of @SimpleJ answer and without using slice two times.
function splitArrayEvenly(array, n) {
array = array.slice();
let result = [];
while (array.length) {
result.push(array.splice(0, Math.ceil(array.length / n--)));
}
return result;
}
console.log(splitArrayEvenly([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12], 5))