The forbidden built-in

Question

In the standard loopholes, the following is forbidden:

Claiming that your answer is written in "MyOwnLanguage", where the command x means "read a sequence of numbers, split them into groups of three, and print the last numbers of those groups where the second number is less than the first"

Here, we are going to do the exact same thing.

Task

Given a sequence of positive integers, whose length is divisible by 3, split them into groups of three, and print the last numbers of those groups where the second number is less than the first.

Testcases

Input               Output
[]                  []
[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] []
[2,1,3,5,4,6,8,7,9] [3,6,9]
[3,1,4,1,5,9,2,6,5] [4]
[100,99,123]        [123]
[123,123,456]       []
[456,123,789]       [789]

Scoring

This is code-golf. Shortest answer in bytes wins.

Standard loopholes apply, so remember not to have a built-in command x that does this task.

Answer 1

Octave, 32 bytes

@(L)L(x=3:3:end)(diff(L)(x-2)<0)

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or

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L3 = L(3:3:end)  %extract last elements of groups
d= diff(L)       % first difference of the list
y=d(1:3:end)     %extract first elements of each subgroup of the difference
idx = y<0        %check for negative numbers  
result = L3(idx)

Answer 2

Jelly, 9 8 bytes

>Ḋm3T×3ị

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How it works

>Ḋm3T×3ị  Main link. Argument: A (array)

 Ḋ        Dequeue; yield A without its first element.
>         Compare the elements of A with the elements of the result.
  m3      Select each third element, starting with the first.
    T     Truth; get all indices of truthy elements.
     ×3   Multiply those indices by 3.
       ị  Unindex; retrieve the elements at the redulting indices.

Answer 3

Haskell, 30 29 bytes

x(a:b:c:l)=[c|b<a]++x l
x d=d

My first attempt at golfing Haskell, so I may have missed an optimization or two

-1 byte thanks to @JulianWolf

Answer 4

Mathematica, 37 bytes

Assuming this does satisfy the spec, ngenisis gets credit for this approach leading to a 1-byte saving!

BlockMap[If[#>#2,Print@#3]&@@#&,#,3]&

Pure function. BlockMap[...,#,3]& splits the input list into sublists of length 3 and then operates on each sublist with the function If[#>#2,Print@#3]&@@#&. The result is that each qualifying last number is printed. The function also returns a value (namely a list of Nulls a third as long as the input list), which seems to be allowed behavior.

Mathematica, 42 38 bytes

Thanks to Martin Ender for saving 4 bytes!

Cases[#~Partition~3,{a__,b_}/;a>0:>b]&

Pure function. #~Partition~3 does what you think. Cases[X,P:>Q] selects all the elements of X matching the pattern P, and returns the result of the transformation rule :>Q applied to each instance. Here, the pattern being matched is {a__,b_}/;a>0: b_ will match the last element of the list and a__ all the other elements (in this case, the first two); call them y and z for now. The sneaky a>0 then expands to y>z>0, which is the test we want to apply (valid because the spec says everything will be a positive integer). And the transformation rule is :>b, which simply replaces each matching ordered triple with its last element.

Original submission:

Last/@Select[#~Partition~3,#.{1,-1,0}>0&]&

Pure function; pretty much a straightforward implementation, other than #.{1,-1,0} which calculates the difference between the first and second elements of each 3-element sublist.

Answer 5

Pyth, 10 bytes

eMf>FPTcQ3

Test suite

eMf>FPTcQ3
       cQ3    Chop the input into groups of size 3
  f           Filter on
     PT       All but the last element
   >F         Apply the greater than function
eM            Map to the last element

Answer 6

R, 35 bytes

(x=matrix(scan(),3))[3,x[2,]<x[1,]]

Answer 7

Brachylog (2), 14 bytes

~c{Ṫ}ᵐ{k>₁&t}ˢ

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Brachylog rather struggles with this sort of problem. Note that this program has horrible computational complexity, as it brute-forces splitting the input into groups of 3 (having no "split into groups" builtin); it runs quickly with four groups but very slowly with five.

Explanation

~c{Ṫ}ᵐ{k>₁&t}ˢ
~c              Split into groups
  { }ᵐ          such that each group
   Ṫ            has three elements
      {     }ˢ  then on each element, skipping that element on error:
       k          with the list minus its last element
        >₁        assert that it's strictly decreasing
          &       and with the original list
           t      keep only its last element

Answer 8

J, 14 bytes

_3&(>`[/\#]/\)

This evaluates to a monadic verb. Try it online!

Explanation

_3&(>`[/\#]/\)  Input is y.
_3&(    \    )  For each non-overlapping 3-element chunk of y,
    >`[/        check if first element is greater than second.
                Call the resulting array x.
_3&(        \)  For each non-overlapping 3-element chunk of y,
          ]/    take the last element.
         #      Keep those where the corresponding element of x is 1.

Answer 9

Alice, 12 11 bytes

Thanks to Leo for saving 1 byte.

I.h%I-rI~$O

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Uses the code points of a string as the input list and outputs the character corresponding to the outputs that should be kept.

Explanation

I      Read x. Pushes -1 on EOF.
.h%    Compute x%(x+1). This terminates the program due to division by zero at EOF,
       but does nothing for non-negative x.
I      Read y.
-      Compute x-y. We only want to output z is this is positive.
r      Range. Pushes 0 1 ... n for positive n, and -n ... 1 0 for negative n
       (and simply 0 for n = 0). So this results in a positive number on top
       of the stack iff x-y is positive.
I      Read z.
~      Swap it with x-y > 0.
$O     Output z iff x-y > 0.
       Then the IP wraps to the beginning of the program to process the next triplet.

Answer 10

Jelly, 10 bytes

s3µṪWx>/µ€

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-3 bytes thanks to @LeakyNun

Explanation

s3µṪWx>/µ€
s3         - split into groups of three
  µ     µ€ - on each group, do:
   ṪW      - return the third element as the only element of a list
     x     - repeat each element in that list the number of times
      >/   - corresponding to 1 if the second element of the group is greater than the first; 0 otherwise.

Answer 11

JavaScript (ES6), 46 44 42 41 39 bytes

a=>a.filter((_,y)=>y%3>1&a[y-1]<a[y-2])

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Input a comma separated list of numbers, without any spaces.

f=
a=>a.filter((_,y)=>y%3>1&a[y-1]<a[y-2])
i.oninput=_=>o.innerText=JSON.stringify(f(i.value.split`,`.map(eval)))
console.log(JSON.stringify(f([])))                  // []
console.log(JSON.stringify(f([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]))) // []
console.log(JSON.stringify(f([2,1,3,5,4,6,8,7,9]))) // [3,6,9]
console.log(JSON.stringify(f([3,1,4,1,5,9,2,6,5]))) // [4]
console.log(JSON.stringify(f([100,99,123])))        // [123]
console.log(JSON.stringify(f([123,123,456])))       // []
console.log(JSON.stringify(f([456,123,789])))       // [789]

<input id=i><pre id=o>

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Explanation

a=>              :Anonymous function taking the input array as an argument via parameter a
a.filter((_,y)=> :Filter the array by executing a callback function on each element,
                  with the index of the current element passed through parameter y.
                  If the function returns 0 for any element, remove it from the array.
y%3>1            :Check if the modulo of the current index is greater than 1.
                  (JS uses 0 indexing, therefore the index of the 3rd element is 2; 2%3=2)
&                :Bitwise AND.
a[y-1]<a[y-2]    :Check if the element at index y-1 in array a
                  is less than the element at index y-2
)                :End filtering method

Answer 12

05AB1E, 8 bytes

Code:

3ôʒR`‹i,

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Answer 13

dc, 30 bytes

[???sAz1[[lAps.]s.<.dx]s.<.]dx

I/O: one number per line.

Answer 14

Perl 5, 31 bytes

30 bytes of code + -p flag.

s/\d+ (\d+) (\d+)/$2if$1<$&/ge

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Replaces each group of 3 numbers (\d+ (\d+) (\d+)) by the third ($2) if the second ($1) is less than the first ($&), and nothing otherwise.

Answer 15

R, 37 bytes

Version with scan() which I do not like, but it makes it shorter.

x=scan();x[(i<--1:1)>0][x[!i]<x[i<0]]

Version with function() which is easier to test (41 byte)

f=function(x)x[(i<--1:1)>0][x[!i]<x[i<0]]

Thanks to the @Giuseppe! Nice idea to use recycling of index.

Test:

f(c())
f(c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9))
f(c(2,1,3,5,4,6,8,7,9))
f(c(3,1,4,1,5,9,2,6,5))
f(c(100,99,123))
f(c(123,123,456))
f(c(456,123,789))

Output:

> f(c())
NULL
> f(c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9))
numeric(0)
> f(c(2,1,3,5,4,6,8,7,9))
[1] 3 6 9
> f(c(3,1,4,1,5,9,2,6,5))
[1] 4
> f(c(100,99,123))
[1] 123
> f(c(123,123,456))
numeric(0)
> f(c(456,123,789))
[1] 789

Answer 16

CJam, 15 bytes

{3/{)\:>{;}|}%}

Anonymous block which expects argument on the stack, and leaves the result on the stack.

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Explanation

3/             e# Split the list into length-3 chunks.
  {            e# For each chunk:
   )           e#  Remove the last element.
    \:>        e#  Reduce the first 2 elements by greater than.
       {;}|    e#  If the first is not larger than the second, delete the third.
           }%  e# (end for)

Answer 17

Brain-Flak, 82 bytes

{([({}[{}()]<(())>)](<>)){({}())<>}{}{((<{}>))<>{}}{}<>{}{{}((<({}<>)<>>))}{}{}}<>

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# Until the stack is empty (input is guaranteed to not contain 0)
{

  # Push 1 for greater than or equal to 0
  ([({}[{}()]<(())>)](<>)){({}())<>}{}{((<{}>))<>{}}{}<>{}
  #  ^------^  This part is Top - (Second + 1)

  # If the second number was less than the first...
  {{}

     # Get ready to push 2 zeros
     ((<

       # Move the next number to the other stack
       ({}<>)<>

     # Push those 2 zeros
     >))}

     # Pop 2 values.
     # This is either 2 zeros, or a 0 and a "last number" that shouldn't be printed
     {}{}

# End loop
}

# Switch to the stack where we stored the numbers to be printed
<>

Answer 18

Husk, 8 bytes

ṁΓȯΓ↑<C3

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Explanation

This program is a bit involved, so bear with me.

ṁΓȯΓ↑<C3  Implicit input (list of integers).
      C3  Split into slices of length 3.
ṁ         Map over slices and concatenate results
 ΓȯΓ↑<    of this function, explained below.

The function ΓȯΓ↑< takes a list of length 3, x = [a,b,c]. The first Γ splits x into a and [b,c], and feeds them as arguments to the function ȯΓ↑<. This should be equivalent to ((Γ↑)<), but due to a bug/feature of the interpreter, it's actually equivalent to (Γ(↑<)), interpreted as a composition of Γ and ↑<. Now, a is fed to the latter function using partial application, the resulting function ↑<a is given to Γ, which deconstructs [b,c] into b and [c]. Then b is fed to ↑<a, resulting in a function that takes the first b<a elements from a list. This function is finally applied to [c]; the result is [c] if a>b, and [] otherwise. These lists are concatenated by ṁ to form the final result, which is printed implicitly.

Without the "feature", I would have 9 bytes:

ṁΓoΓo↑<C3

Answer 19

Python 3, 43 42 bytes

1 byte thanks to xnor.

f=lambda a,b,c,*l:(b<a)*(c,)+(l and f(*l))

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Answer 20

C#, 126 Bytes

using System.Linq;i=>Enumerable.Range(0,i.Length/3).Select(u=>3*u).Where(u=>i[u]>i[u+1]).Select(u=>i[u+2]);

If you want a whole program with the method it'd be 175 Bytes:

using System.Linq;namespace S{class P{static System.Collections.IEnumerable X(int[]i)=>Enumerable.Range(0,i.Length/3).Select(u=>3*u).Where(u=>i[u]>i[u+1]).Select(u=>i[u+2]);}}

Saved 7 Bytes with the help of TheLethalCoder

Answer 21

Java 7, 86 85 bytes

void c(int[]a){for(int i=-1;++i<a.length;)if(a[i++]>a[i++])System.out.println(a[i]);}

-1 byte thanks to @PunPun1000

Explanation:

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void c(int[]a){                  // Method with integer-array parameter and no return
  for(int i=-1;++i<a.length;)    //  Loop over the array in steps of three at a time
    if(a[i++]>a[i++])            //   If the value of the current index is larger than the next:
      System.out.println(a[i]);  //    Print the value on the third index
                                 //  End of loop (implicit / single-line body)
}                                // End of method

Answer 22

MATL, 10 bytes

IeI&Y)d0<)

The result is displayed as numbers separated by spaces.

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Or verify all test cases. This displays a string representation of the output, so that an empty array is actually seen as []. Note that in MATL a number is the same as a singleton array, so [4] is shown as 4.

Explanation

Ie    % Implicit input. Reshape as a 3-row matrix (column-major order)
I&Y)  % Split into the third row and a submatrix with the other two rows
d     % Consecutive difference along each column of the submatrix
0<    % True for negative values
)     % Use as logical index into the original third row. Implicitly display

Answer 23

Röda, 15 bytes

{[_3]if[_2<_1]}

Röda is nearly as short as the golfing languages...

This takes three values from the stream, and pushes the third (_3) back, if the second (_2) is less than the first (_1).

The underscores are syntax sugar for for loops, so the program could be written as {{[a]if[b<c]}for a,b,c} or even {[a]for a,b,c if[b<c]}.

No TIO link, because it doesn't work on TIO for some reason (although works with the latest version of Röda that predates the challenge).

Answer 24

JavaScript, 108 107 108 bytes

This is a valid JS anonymous (lambda) function. Add x= at the beginning and invoke like x([5,4,9,10,5,13]). Outputs as function return.

a=>(y=[],a.map((c,i)=>(i+1)%3?0:y.push(a.slice(i-2,i+1))),y.map(v=>v[1]<v[0]?v[2]:null).filter(c=>c|c==0))

The snippet takes in the input as a list of comma separated integers.

x=a=>(y=[],a.map((c,i)=>(i+1)%3?0:y.push(a.slice(i-2,i+1))),y.map(v=>v[1]<v[0]?v[2]:null).filter(c=>c|c==0))
martin.oninput = e => { dennis.innerHTML = x(martin.value.split`,`.map(c=>parseInt(c,10))) }

<input type=text id=martin><pre id=dennis>

Answer 25

Python 2, 57 bytes

lambda i:[i[c+2]for c in range(0,len(i),3)if i[c+1]<i[c]]

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Answer 26

CJam, 16 bytes

q~3/{~@@>S{;}?}%

The output is shown as numbers separated by spaces.

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Explanation

q~               e# Read input list
  3/             e# List of sublists of length 3
   {         }%  e# Apply this to each sublist
    ~            e# Push sublist contents: 3 numbers
     @@          e# Rotate twice. This moves first two numbers to top
       >         e# Greater than?
        S{;}?    e# If so: push space (used as separator). Else: pop the third number
                 e# Implicitly display

Answer 27

PHP, 89 Bytes

<?print_r(array_filter($_GET,function($v,$k){return $k%3>1&&$_GET[$k-1]<$_GET[$k-2];},1));

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Answer 28

Ruby, 37 35 bytes

->a{a.map{x,y,z,*a=a;z&&x>y&&p(z)}}

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How it works:

->a{
    a.map{                          -> Loop [a.size] times
          x,y,z,*a=a;               -> get and remove 3 elements from a
                     z&&x>y&&p(z)   -> print z if not null and x>y
                                 }} 

Answer 29

Retina, 42 36 bytes

\d+
$*
M!`1+ 1+ 1+
A`^(1+) \1
%r`1\G

Try it online! Takes input as a space-separated list of numbers and outputs a newline-separated list of numbers. Edit: Saved 6 bytes thanks to @MartinEnder. Explanation:

\d+             Match input numbers
$*              Convert to unary
M!`1+ 1+ 1+     Capture groups of three numbers
A`^(1+) \1      Filter out if the first is less than or equal to the second
%r`1\G          Convert the third to decimal

Answer 30

C, 65 bytes

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i;f(s,l)int*l;{for(;i+2<s;i++)l[i]>l[i+1]&&printf(" %d",l[i+2]);}

Answer 31

Perl5.8.9, 73 60 bytes

while(@F){@b=splice@F,0,3;$b[1]<$b[0]&&print$b[2]}print"-"

(58+2 for the 'n' flag to read the whole file and a to autosplit). Assumes the input is lines of space separated numbers

Reduction thanks to Dada. Including the print at the end for visibility, that'd save 8 bytes if not.

Answer 32

Clojure, 43 bytes

#(for[[a b c](partition 3 %):when(< b a)]c)

Boring :/

Answer 33

Bash, 61 bytes

a=($@)
for((t=0;t<$#;t+=3)){((a[t+1]<a[t]))&&echo ${a[t+2]};}

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Answer 34

Mathematica, 42 39 bytes

Edit: Saved 3 bytes thanks to Greg Martin

BlockMap[Apply[If[#>#2,#3,Nothing]&],#,3]&

BlockMap[If[#>#2,#3,Nothing]&@@#&,#,3]&

Not shorter than Greg Martin's answer, but I couldn't resist the opportunity to finally use BlockMap. Partitions the input list # into sublists of size 3 and Applys the functions If[#>#2,#3,Nothing]& to each sublist.

Questionable solution, 38 bytes

BlockMap[If[#>#2,Print@#3]&@@#&,#,3]&

Same as above, except it prints the desired elements and returns {Null,...Null}.

Answer 35

Scala, 74 66 bytes

Edit: Lost 8 bytes thanks to @AlecZorab

The suggestion was to use collect() instead of the equivalent filter() followed by map() (which my for comprehension is equivalent to) and a pattern match, kind of like:

(_:Seq[Int]).grouped(3).collect{case(Seq(a,b,c))if(a>b)=>c}.toList

Another suggestion was to drop the parameter name as it was only used once.

The character/byte count can be dropped to 59 bytes if an iterator is an acceptable output. Usage is similar to the old version.

Old version:

(s:Seq[Int])=>(for(l<-s.grouped(3)if l.size>2&l(0)>l(1))yield l(2)).toList

Straightforward. The toList at the end is to consume the iterator produced - toSeq produces a Stream in my tests, which shows only the first element. If the iterator itself is legal as output, this version comes in at 64 bytes:

(s:Seq[Int])=>for(l<-s.grouped(3)if l.size>2&l(0)>l(1))yield l(2)

Scala allows Unicode operators, so I could lower the character count to 62 at the cost of increasing the byte count to 66:

(s:Seq[Int])⇒for(l←s.grouped(3)if l.size>2&l(0)>l(1))yield l(2)

Lambda, the parameter type is required in the REPL. Enter into the REPL and call the res0 or whatever function object it shows with the Seq[Int] to test with. For ease of testing, you can consider the following function which converts a test case String into a proper Seq[Int]:

def testCaseAsSeq(input: String): Seq[Int] =
    input.drop(1).dropRight(1)
         .split(",")
         .filter(! _.isEmpty)
         .map(_.toInt).toSeq

Prettified version with some obfuscations removed to make it more standard Scala:

(sequence: Seq[Int]): List[Int] => 
                    (for(group <- s.grouped(3) 
                    if group.size == 3 && group(0) > group(1))
                        yield group.last)
                    .toList

Answer 36

><>, 19 + 3 for -v = 22 bytes

rl?!;(?\~r
naaao~ \

Answer 37

Japt, 18 12 bytes

ò3 f_v >ZvÃc

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Or 10 bytes if returning a nested array is permitted, e.g. [[3],[6],[9]]

ò3 f_v >Zv

Answer 38

Mathematica 65 bytes

{K={};Cases[Partition[#,3],{a_,b_,c_}->If[b<a,AppendTo[K,c]]];K}&

Answer 39

Awk, 27 bytes

{a[b=NR%3]=$0}!b&&a[2]<a[1]

Answer 40

GolfScript, 17 bytes

~3/{~@@>{}{;}if}%

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Explanation

~                 # Evaluate the input
 3/               # Split the input into chunks of 3
   {           }% # Map every item in the input
    ~@@>          # Is the 1st item < second item?
        {}{;}if   # If false, discard the current item