Task

Find the top   N   salaries in each department,   where   N   is provided as a parameter.

Use this data as a formatted internal data structure (adapt it to your language-native idioms, rather than parse at runtime), or identify your external data source:

Employee Name,Employee ID,Salary,Department
Tyler Bennett,E10297,32000,D101
John Rappl,E21437,47000,D050
George Woltman,E00127,53500,D101
Adam Smith,E63535,18000,D202
Claire Buckman,E39876,27800,D202
David McClellan,E04242,41500,D101
Rich Holcomb,E01234,49500,D202
Nathan Adams,E41298,21900,D050
Richard Potter,E43128,15900,D101
David Motsinger,E27002,19250,D202
Tim Sampair,E03033,27000,D101
Kim Arlich,E10001,57000,D190
Timothy Grove,E16398,29900,D190



#import std
#import nat
 
data =
 
-[
Employee Name,Employee ID,Salary,Department
Tyler Bennett,E10297,32000,D101
John Rappl,E21437,47000,D050
George Woltman,E00127,53500,D101
Adam Smith,E63535,18000,D202
Claire Buckman,E39876,27800,D202
David McClellan,E04242,41500,D101
Rich Holcomb,E01234,49500,D202
Nathan Adams,E41298,21900,D050
Richard Potter,E43128,15900,D101
David Motsinger,E27002,19250,D202
Tim Sampair,E03033,27000,D101
Kim Arlich,E10001,57000,D190
Timothy Grove,E16398,29900,D190]-
 
top "n" = @tt sep`,*; mat0+ ^C(~&hz,mat`,*yS)*+ take/*"n"+ *zK2 (nleq+ %np~~)-<x&yzNC 
 
#show+
 
main = top3 data