F#: How do i split up a sequence into a sequence of sequences

Question

Background:

I have a sequence of contiguous, time-stamped data. The data-sequence has gaps in it where the data is not contiguous. I want create a

Answer 1

Okay, trying again. Achieving the optimal amount of laziness turns out to be a bit difficult in F#... On the bright side, this is somewhat more functional than my last attempt, in that it doesn't use any ref cells.

let groupBy cmp (sq:seq<_>) =
  let en = sq.GetEnumerator()
  let next() = if en.MoveNext() then Some en.Current else None
  (* this function returns a pair containing the first sequence and a lazy option indicating the first element in the next sequence (if any) *)
  let rec seqStartingWith start =
    match next() with
    | Some y when cmp start y ->
        let rest_next = lazy seqStartingWith y // delay evaluation until forced - stores the rest of this sequence and the start of the next one as a pair
        seq { yield start; yield! fst (Lazy.force rest_next) }, 
          lazy Lazy.force (snd (Lazy.force rest_next))
    | next -> seq { yield start }, lazy next
  let rec iter start =
    seq {
      match (Lazy.force start) with
      | None -> ()
      | Some start -> 
          let (first,next) = seqStartingWith start
          yield first
          yield! iter next
    }
  Seq.cache (iter (lazy next()))