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\name{resolve_block_items}
\alias{resolve_block_items}
\title{Auto-detect block.items from forced-choice ranking data}
\usage{
resolve_block_items(block.items, data)
}
\arguments{
\item{block.items}{User-supplied block.items or NULL.}

\item{data}{The forced-choice data matrix.}
}
\value{
A list of integer vectors (one per block), or NULL if
auto-detection is not possible.
}
\description{
Parses ranking strings like \code{"2>1>3"} to extract the set of item
indices in each block.  Only works when data columns contain character
ranking strings.
}
\keyword{internal}
