LongestOrderedSequence

LongestOrderedSequence[list]

finds the longest ordered sequence of contiguous or disjoint elements in list.

LongestOrderedSequence[list,p]

finds the longest ordered sequence using the ordering function p.

Details and Options

Examples

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Basic Examples  (4)

Find the longest ordered substring, in this case formed by contiguous characters:

Find the longest ordered sequence of elements in a list:

Find the longest strictly ordered sequence of elements in a list:

Find the longest decreasing sequence of elements in a list:

Scope  (2)

Act on strings:

Act on lists of expressions:

Options  (1)

IgnoreCase  (1)

By default, LongestOrderedSequence distinguishes lower case and upper case:

Ignore case:

Applications  (1)

Find the longest ascending sequence of characters in a text:

Neat Examples  (1)

Find the distribution of lengths of longest ordered sequences in random sequences:

Wolfram Research (2015), LongestOrderedSequence, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LongestOrderedSequence.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2015), LongestOrderedSequence, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LongestOrderedSequence.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2015. "LongestOrderedSequence." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LongestOrderedSequence.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2015). LongestOrderedSequence. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LongestOrderedSequence.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2024_longestorderedsequence, author="Wolfram Research", title="{LongestOrderedSequence}", year="2015", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LongestOrderedSequence.html}", note=[Accessed: 06-December-2024 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2024_longestorderedsequence, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={LongestOrderedSequence}, year={2015}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LongestOrderedSequence.html}, note=[Accessed: 06-December-2024 ]}