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list manipulation - How to invert MapIndexed on a ragged structure? How to construct a tree from rules?


I have an arbitrary ragged nested list-of-lists (a tree) like


A = {{a, b}, {c, d}, {{{e, f, g, h, i}, {j, k, l}}, m}, n};

Its structure is given by the rules



B = Flatten[MapIndexed[#2 -> #1 &, A, {-1}]]


{{1, 1} -> a, {1, 2} -> b, {2, 1} -> c, {2, 2} -> d, {3, 1, 1, 1} -> e, {3, 1, 1, 2} -> f, {3, 1, 1, 3} -> g, {3, 1, 1, 4} -> h, {3, 1, 1, 5} -> i, {3, 1, 2, 1} -> j, {3, 1, 2, 2} -> k, {3, 1, 2, 3} -> l, {3, 2} -> m, {4} -> n}



How can I invert this operation? How can I construct A solely from the information given in B?





Thanks to all for contributing so far!


For robustness and versatility it would be nice for a solution to accept incomplete input like B = {{2} -> 1} and still generate {0,1}, not just {1}.



Also, there are some very deep trees to be constructed, like B = {ConstantArray[2, 100] -> 1}. A certain parsimony is required to be able to construct such trees within reasonable time.



Answer



Here's an inefficient but reasonably simple way:


groupMe[rules_] :=
If[Head[rules[[1]]] === Rule,
Values@GroupBy[
rules,
(#[[1, 1]] &) ->
(If[Length[#[[1]]] === 1, #[[2]], #[[1, 2 ;;]] -> #[[2]]] &),
groupMe

],
rules[[1]]
]

groupMe[B]

{{a, b}, {c, d}, {{{e, f, g, h, i}, {j, k, l}}, m}, n}

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