| 1 | /* -*- mode: C++; indent-tabs-mode: nil; -*- | 
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| 2 | * | 
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| 3 | * This file is a part of LEMON, a generic C++ optimization library. | 
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| 4 | * | 
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| 5 | * Copyright (C) 2003-2009 | 
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| 6 | * Egervary Jeno Kombinatorikus Optimalizalasi Kutatocsoport | 
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| 7 | * (Egervary Research Group on Combinatorial Optimization, EGRES). | 
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| 8 | * | 
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| 9 | * Permission to use, modify and distribute this software is granted | 
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| 10 | * provided that this copyright notice appears in all copies. For | 
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| 11 | * precise terms see the accompanying LICENSE file. | 
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| 12 | * | 
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| 13 | * This software is provided "AS IS" with no warranty of any kind, | 
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| 14 | * express or implied, and with no claim as to its suitability for any | 
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| 15 | * purpose. | 
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| 16 | * | 
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| 17 | */ | 
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| 18 |  | 
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| 19 | namespace lemon { | 
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| 20 | /*! | 
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| 21 |  | 
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| 22 |  | 
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| 23 |  | 
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| 24 | \page lgf-format LEMON Graph Format (LGF) | 
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| 25 |  | 
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| 26 | The \e LGF is a <em>column oriented</em> | 
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| 27 | file format for storing graphs and associated data like | 
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| 28 | node and edge maps. | 
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| 29 |  | 
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| 30 | Each line with \c '#' first non-whitespace | 
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| 31 | character is considered as a comment line. | 
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| 32 |  | 
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| 33 | Otherwise the file consists of sections starting with | 
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| 34 | a header line. The header lines starts with an \c '@' character followed by the | 
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| 35 | type of section. The standard section types are \c \@nodes, \c | 
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| 36 | \@arcs and \c \@edges | 
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| 37 | and \@attributes. Each header line may also have an optional | 
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| 38 | \e name, which can be use to distinguish the sections of the same | 
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| 39 | type. | 
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| 40 |  | 
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| 41 | The standard sections are column oriented, each line consists of | 
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| 42 | <em>token</em>s separated by whitespaces. A token can be \e plain or | 
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| 43 | \e quoted. A plain token is just a sequence of non-whitespace characters, | 
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| 44 | while a quoted token is a | 
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| 45 | character sequence surrounded by double quotes, and it can also | 
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| 46 | contain whitespaces and escape sequences. | 
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| 47 |  | 
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| 48 | The \c \@nodes section describes a set of nodes and associated | 
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| 49 | maps. The first is a header line, its columns are the names of the | 
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| 50 | maps appearing in the following lines. | 
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| 51 | One of the maps must be called \c | 
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| 52 | "label", which plays special role in the file. | 
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| 53 | The following | 
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| 54 | non-empty lines until the next section describes nodes of the | 
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| 55 | graph. Each line contains the values of the node maps | 
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| 56 | associated to the current node. | 
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| 57 |  | 
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| 58 | \code | 
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| 59 | @nodes | 
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| 60 | label  coordinates  size    title | 
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| 61 | 1      (10,20)      10      "First node" | 
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| 62 | 2      (80,80)      8       "Second node" | 
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| 63 | 3      (40,10)      10      "Third node" | 
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| 64 | \endcode | 
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| 65 |  | 
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| 66 | The \e LGF files can also contain bipartite graphs, in this case a | 
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| 67 | \c \@red_nodes and a \c \@blue_nodes sections describe the node set of the | 
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| 68 | graph. If a map is in both of these sections, then it can be used as a | 
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| 69 | regular node map. | 
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| 70 |  | 
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| 71 | \code | 
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| 72 | @red_nodes | 
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| 73 | label  only_red_map   name | 
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| 74 | 1      "cherry"       "John" | 
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| 75 | 2      "Santa Claus"  "Jack" | 
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| 76 | 3      "blood"        "Jason" | 
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| 77 | @blue_nodes | 
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| 78 | label  name | 
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| 79 | 4      "Elisabeth" | 
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| 80 | 5      "Eve" | 
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| 81 | \endcode | 
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| 82 |  | 
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| 83 | The \c \@arcs section is very similar to the \c \@nodes section, | 
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| 84 | it again starts with a header line describing the names of the maps, | 
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| 85 | but the \c "label" map is not obligatory here. The following lines | 
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| 86 | describe the arcs. The first two tokens of each line are | 
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| 87 | the source and the target node of the arc, respectively, then come the map | 
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| 88 | values. The source and target tokens must be node labels. | 
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| 89 |  | 
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| 90 | \code | 
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| 91 | @arcs | 
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| 92 | capacity | 
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| 93 | 1   2   16 | 
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| 94 | 1   3   12 | 
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| 95 | 2   3   18 | 
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| 96 | \endcode | 
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| 97 |  | 
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| 98 | If there is no map in the \c \@arcs section at all, then it must be | 
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| 99 | indicated by a sole '-' sign in the first line. | 
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| 100 |  | 
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| 101 | \code | 
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| 102 | @arcs | 
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| 103 | - | 
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| 104 | 1   2 | 
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| 105 | 1   3 | 
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| 106 | 2   3 | 
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| 107 | \endcode | 
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| 108 |  | 
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| 109 | The \c \@edges is just a synonym of \c \@arcs. The \@arcs section can | 
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| 110 | also store the edge set of an undirected graph. In such case there is | 
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| 111 | a conventional method for store arc maps in the file, if two columns | 
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| 112 | have the same caption with \c '+' and \c '-' prefix, then these columns | 
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| 113 | can be regarded as the values of an arc map. | 
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| 114 |  | 
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| 115 | The \c \@attributes section contains key-value pairs, each line | 
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| 116 | consists of two tokens, an attribute name, and then an attribute | 
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| 117 | value. The value of the attribute could be also a label value of a | 
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| 118 | node or an edge, or even an edge label prefixed with \c '+' or \c '-', | 
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| 119 | which regards to the forward or backward directed arc of the | 
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| 120 | corresponding edge. | 
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| 121 |  | 
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| 122 | \code | 
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| 123 | @attributes | 
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| 124 | source 1 | 
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| 125 | target 3 | 
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| 126 | caption "LEMON test digraph" | 
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| 127 | \endcode | 
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| 128 |  | 
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| 129 | The \e LGF can contain extra sections, but there is no restriction on | 
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| 130 | the format of such sections. | 
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| 131 |  | 
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| 132 | */ | 
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| 133 | } | 
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| 134 |  | 
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| 135 | //  LocalWords:  whitespace whitespaces | 
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