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    <p>Thank you for the availability of CMPL and the COIN-OR project.</p>
    <p>I am trying to learn the language by developing a model of port
      to port ocean transport with a relatively small set of ports (3
      export serving 3 producing regions, 7 import serving 7 consuming
      regions) eventually leading to a larger and more complex
      situation.  I come from a programming language background.  I am
      using Coliop4.  <br>
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    <p>Any suggestions/advice much appreciated.<br>
    </p>
    <p>1) I have not found any tutorial information for beginners, only
      the documentation.  Is there anything like that available?</p>
    <p>2) Is there a search function for the mailing list archive?<br>
    </p>
    <p>3)   I have sets for producing and consuming regions and import
      and export ports (see below). <br>
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    producing_regions := set
    ("SouthAmerica","Midwest","PacificNorthwest");<br>
    export_ports[producing_regions] :=
    ("Santos","NewOrleans","Seattle"); <br>
    consuming_regions := set("China", "Europe", "Mexico", "Japan",
    "SoutheastAsia","FSU-MiddleEast","Korea");<br>
    import_ports[consuming_regions] := ("ChinaIP", "EuropeIP",
    "MexicoIP", "JapanIP",
    "SoutheastAsiaIP","FSU-MiddleEastIP","KoreaIP");
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    <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
      margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
      -qt-user-state:0;">I am interested in developing the set of routes
      between all possible port pairs without having to directly
      enumerate it, so that I could reference route("Santos","ChinaIP")
      for the specifics of a particular route.  Is there an easy way of
      doing this within CMPL?  I did it manually, as follows:</p>
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      margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
      -qt-user-state:0;"><br>
    </p>
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      margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
      -qt-user-state:0;">routes := set(
      ["Santos","ChinaIP"],["NewOrleans","ChinaIP"],["Seattle","ChinaIP"],</p>
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      -qt-user-state:0;">
      ["Santos","EuropeIP"],["NewOrleans","EuropeIP"],["Seattle","EuropeIP"],</p>
    <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
      margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
      -qt-user-state:0;">
      ["Santos","MexicoIP"],["NewOrleans","MexicoIP"],["Seattle","MexicoIP"],</p>
    <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
      margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
      -qt-user-state:0;">
      ["Santos","JapanIP"],["NewOrleans","JapanIP"],["Seattle","JapanIP"],</p>
    <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
      margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
      -qt-user-state:0;">
["Santos","SoutheastAsiaIP"],["NewOrleans","SoutheastAsiaIP"],["Seattle","SoutheastAsiaIP"],</p>
    <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
      margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
      -qt-user-state:0;">
["Santos","FSU-MiddleEastIP"],["NewOrleans","FSU-MiddleEastIP"],["Seattle","FSU-MiddleEastIP"],</p>
    <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
      margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
      -qt-user-state:0;">
      ["Santos","KoreaIP"],["NewOrleans","KoreaIP"],["Seattle","KoreaIP"]);</p>
    <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
      margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
      -qt-user-state:0;"><br>
    </p>
    <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
      margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
      -qt-user-state:0;">4) I am also looking for the best way to
      formulate a lookup situation.  In this case, given the region, I
      wish to know the port.  I have created a correspondence parameter
      with 2-tuples, as follows <br>
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      -qt-user-state:0;">producing_regions_export_ports_correspondence:=set(["SouthAmerica","Santos"],["Midwest","NewOrleans"],["PacificNorthWest","Seattle"]);</p>
    <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
      margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
      -qt-user-state:0;"><br>
    </p>
    <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
      margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
      -qt-user-state:0;">and I would like to be able, given "Midwest",
      to return "NewOrleans".  I can iterate over the set to find the
      value, e.g.:</p>
    <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
      margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
      -qt-user-state:0;"># below finds correspondence by looping through
      all</p>
    <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
      margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
      -qt-user-state:0;">{ [i,j] in
      producing_regions_export_ports_correspondence:</p>
    <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
      margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
      -qt-user-state:0;">{i="Midwest": echo j;}</p>
    <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
      margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
      -qt-user-state:0;">}</p>
    <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
      margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
      -qt-user-state:0;">but I am hoping there is a more direct way of
      doing this.</p>
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    </p>
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      margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
      -qt-user-state:0;">Thank you in advance.<br>
    </p>
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      -qt-user-state:0;">Dick Males<br>
    </p>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Richard M. Males
3319 Eastside Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45208
USA
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