The code below is a simplified version of a method I am working on for a java project. The method will sort through a list of items(two different categories), in this case 0,s and 1's. The code reads through an array of numbers stops at either 0 or 1 and then prints out both the 0 or one and the string of numbers following the 0 or 1. If a preceding string is a 1 or a zero then it will stop and switch to another if statement. However it only executes each statement once. However there is more in the array that it needs to read through and organize. I would like to set up some sort of loop so that it loops through the set of if statements until it has read through the entire array.
public class tester
{
public static void main(String[] args )
{
String flags[] = {"0","23","25","34","1","9","12","13","0","67","2","43"};
String array[] = new String[flags.length];
String zeros [] = new String[array.length];
String ones[] = new String[array.length];
int i,j,k,h;
int count = 0;
for (i = 0; i<flags.length; i++)
{
if (flags[i].equals("0"))
{
for (j=0; !flags[j].equals("1") ; j++)
{
count = j+1;
array[j] = flags[j];
zeros[j] = flags[j];
}
} else
if (flags[count].equals("1"))
{
j = 0;
for(k=count; !flags[k].equals("0");k++)
{
array[k] = flags[k];
j++;
ones[j-1] = flags[k];
}
}
}
for(i=0; i<zeros.length; i++)
{System.out.println(zeros[i]);}
System.out.println();
for(i=0; i<ones.length; i++)
{System.out.println(ones[i]);}
}
}
What it prints out now:
0
23
25
34
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
1
9
12
13
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
String flags[] = {"9","0","23","25","34","1","9","12","13","0","67","2","43"};
String array[] = new String[flags.length];
String zeros [] = new String[array.length];
String ones[] = new String[array.length];
int i;
boolean addingZeroes = false;
boolean addingOnes = false;
int zeroCount = 0;
int onesCount = 0;
for (i = 0; i<flags.length; i++) {
if (flags[i].equals("0")) {
zeros[zeroCount] = flags[i];
zeroCount++;
addingZeroes = true;
addingOnes = false;
} else if (flags[i].equals("1")) {
ones[onesCount] = flags[i];
onesCount++;
addingZeroes = false;
addingOnes = true;
} else if (addingZeroes) {
zeros[zeroCount] = flags[i];
zeroCount++;
} else if (addingOnes) {
ones[onesCount] = flags[i];
onesCount++;
}
}
for(i=0; i<zeroCount; i++) {
System.out.println(zeros[i]);
}
System.out.println();
for(i=0; i<onesCount; i++) {
System.out.println(ones[i]);
}
Hey, couple things were wrong. Basically, you need a little state machine where you need to know whether you are in the midst of storing the sequence after a 1 or a 0. I used the boolean values (eg addingZeroes) for that.
Then, you need to separately keep track of your element count (eg zeroCount) for each of the storage arrays. You might have 20 digits after a 0 and just 2 after a 1.
Finally, at the end, your length of your storage arrays is not what you want - you want the amount of values you ended up storing. That's why you got all those "nulls".
One other thing I noticed is that your j value is initialized always to 0 in the 0 block, so you would always be using the lowest values of the start array.
I have a sentence: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
I want the strings to swap positions such that : Dumpty Humpty on sat wall a.
So the code that I wrote is following :
import java.util.*;
public class Swap{
public static void main(String []args) {
ArrayList<String> sentence = new ArrayList<String>();
sentence.add("Humpty");
sentence.add("Dumpty");
sentence.add("sat");
sentence.add("on");
sentence.add("a");
sentence.add("wall");
int size = sentence.size() ; // for finding size of array list
int numb ;
if(size%2 == 0) {
numb = 1;
}
else {
numb = 0;
}
ArrayList<String> newSentence = new ArrayList<String>();
if(numb == 1) {
for(int i = 0; i <= size ; i = i+2) {
String item = sentence.get(i);
newSentence.add(i+1, item);
}
for(int i = 1; i<=size ; i = i+2) {
String item2 = sentence.get(i);
newSentence.add(i-1, item2);
}
System.out.println(newSentence);
}
else {
System.out.println(sentence);
}
}
}
The code is compiling correct but when I run it, its giving an error.
What i understand of this is that I am adding strings to the array list leaving positions in between. Like adding at position 3 without filling position 2 first. How do I overcome this problem ?
You're correct about your problem - you're trying to insert an element into index 1 before inserting an element at all (at index 0), and you get an IndexOutOfBoundsException.
If you want to use your existing code to achieve this task, simply have just one loop as such:
if(numb == 1) {
for(int i = 0; i < size-1 ; i = i+2) {
String item = sentence.get(i+1);
newSentence.add(i, item);
item = sentence.get(i);
newSentence.add(i+1, item);
}
}
If you want to be a bit more sophisticated a use Java's built-in functions, you can use swap:
for(int i = 0; i < size-1 ; i = i+2) {
Collections.swap(sentence, i, i+1);
}
System.out.println(sentence);
You can initilize newSentence using:
ArrayList<String> newSentence = new ArrayList<String>(Collections.nCopies(size, ""));
This will let you access/skip any position in between 0 and size. So you can keep your rest of the code as it is.
just remember all index are being populated with empty String here.
That is because:
for(int i = 0; i <= size ; i = i+2) {
String item = sentence.get(i);
newSentence.add(i+1, item);//Here you will face java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException
}
for(int i = 1; i<=size ; i = i+2) {
String item2 = sentence.get(i);
newSentence.add(i-1, item2);//Here you will face java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException
}
instead of this, try following code:
if(numb == 1) {
for(int i = 0; i < size-1 ; i +=2) {
Collections.swap(sentence, i, i+1);
}
}
I'm trying to get the longest method to take the user-inputted array of strings, then return the element number of the longest string in that array. I got it to the point where I was able to return the number of chars in the longest string, but I don't believe that will work for what I need. My problem is that I keep getting incompatible type errors when trying to figure this out. I don't understand the whole data type thing with strings yet. It's confusing me how I go about return a number of the array yet the array is of strings. The main method is fine, I got stuck on the ???? part.
public static void main(String [] args)
{
Scanner inp = new Scanner( System.in );
String [] responseArr= new String[4];
for (int i=0; i<4; i++)
{
System.out.println("Enter string "+(i+1));
responseArr[i] = inp.nextLine();
}
int highest=longestS(responseArr);
}
public static int longestS(String[] values)
{
int largest=0
for( int i = 1; i < values.length; i++ )
{
if ( ????? )
}
return largest;
}
for (int i = 0; i < values.length; i++)
{
if (values[i].length() > largest)
{
largest = values[i].length();
index = i;
}
}
return index;
Note: initialize the int i with 0 - array index is 0-based.
Back in your main, you could then do System.out.println("Longest: " + responseArr[highest]); etc.
Here's how I'd write it:
public static int findIndexOfLongestString(String[] values)
{
int index = -1;
if ((values != null) && (values.length > 0))
{
index = 0;
String longest = values[0];
for (int i = 1; i < values.length; ++i)
{
if (values[i].length() > longest.length())
{
longest = values[i];
index = i;
}
}
}
return index;
}
You will want to store two things in your longestS method: the largest length so far, and the array index of the largest length. Also keep in mind that array indices start at 0 in Java. A for loop initialised with int i = 1 is actually going to start at the second index.
My solution:
public class JavaApplication3
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
String[] big={"one","two","three"};
String bigstring=null;
int maxlength=0;
for(String max:big)
{
if(maxlength<max.length())
{
maxlength=max.length();
bigstring=max;
}
}
System.out.println(bigstring);
}
}
The following code is trying to remove any duplicate characters in a string. I'm not sure if the code is right. Can anybody help me work with the code (i.e whats actually happening when there is a match in characters)?
public static void removeDuplicates(char[] str) {
if (str == null) return;
int len = str.length;
if (len < 2) return;
int tail = 1;
for (int i = 1; i < len; ++i) {
int j;
for (j = 0; j < tail; ++j) {
if (str[i] == str[j]) break;
}
if (j == tail) {
str[tail] = str[i];
++tail;
}
}
str[tail] = 0;
}
The function looks fine to me. I've written inline comments. Hope it helps:
// function takes a char array as input.
// modifies it to remove duplicates and adds a 0 to mark the end
// of the unique chars in the array.
public static void removeDuplicates(char[] str) {
if (str == null) return; // if the array does not exist..nothing to do return.
int len = str.length; // get the array length.
if (len < 2) return; // if its less than 2..can't have duplicates..return.
int tail = 1; // number of unique char in the array.
// start at 2nd char and go till the end of the array.
for (int i = 1; i < len; ++i) {
int j;
// for every char in outer loop check if that char is already seen.
// char in [0,tail) are all unique.
for (j = 0; j < tail; ++j) {
if (str[i] == str[j]) break; // break if we find duplicate.
}
// if j reachs tail..we did not break, which implies this char at pos i
// is not a duplicate. So we need to add it our "unique char list"
// we add it to the end, that is at pos tail.
if (j == tail) {
str[tail] = str[i]; // add
++tail; // increment tail...[0,tail) is still "unique char list"
}
}
str[tail] = 0; // add a 0 at the end to mark the end of the unique char.
}
Your code is, I'm sorry to say, very C-like.
A Java String is not a char[]. You say you want to remove duplicates from a String, but you take a char[] instead.
Is this char[] \0-terminated? Doesn't look like it because you take the whole .length of the array. But then your algorithm tries to \0-terminate a portion of the array. What happens if the arrays contains no duplicates?
Well, as it is written, your code actually throws an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException on the last line! There is no room for the \0 because all slots are used up!
You can add a check not to add \0 in this exceptional case, but then how are you planning to use this code anyway? Are you planning to have a strlen-like function to find the first \0 in the array? And what happens if there isn't any? (due to all-unique exceptional case above?).
What happens if the original String/char[] contains a \0? (which is perfectly legal in Java, by the way, see JLS 10.9 An Array of Characters is Not a String)
The result will be a mess, and all because you want to do everything C-like, and in place without any additional buffer. Are you sure you really need to do this? Why not work with String, indexOf, lastIndexOf, replace, and all the higher-level API of String? Is it provably too slow, or do you only suspect that it is?
"Premature optimization is the root of all evils". I'm sorry but if you can't even understand what the original code does, then figuring out how it will fit in the bigger (and messier) system will be a nightmare.
My minimal suggestion is to do the following:
Make the function takes and returns a String, i.e. public static String removeDuplicates(String in)
Internally, works with char[] str = in.toCharArray();
Replace the last line by return new String(str, 0, tail);
This does use additional buffers, but at least the interface to the rest of the system is much cleaner.
Alternatively, you can use StringBuilder as such:
static String removeDuplicates(String s) {
StringBuilder noDupes = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
String si = s.substring(i, i + 1);
if (noDupes.indexOf(si) == -1) {
noDupes.append(si);
}
}
return noDupes.toString();
}
Note that this is essentially the same algorithm as what you had, but much cleaner and without as many little corner cases, etc.
Given the following question :
Write code to remove the duplicate characters in a string without
using any additional buffer. NOTE: One or two additional variables
are fine. An extra copy of the array is not.
Since one or two additional variables are fine but no buffer is allowed, you can simulate the behaviour of a hashmap by using an integer to store bits instead. This simple solution runs at O(n), which is faster than yours. Also, it isn't conceptually complicated and in-place :
public static void removeDuplicates(char[] str) {
int map = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
if ((map & (1 << (str[i] - 'a'))) > 0) // duplicate detected
str[i] = 0;
else // add unique char as a bit '1' to the map
map |= 1 << (str[i] - 'a');
}
}
The drawback is that the duplicates (which are replaced with 0's) will not be placed at the end of the str[] array. However, this can easily be fixed by looping through the array one last time. Also, an integer has the capacity for only regular letters.
private static String removeDuplicateCharactersFromWord(String word) {
String result = new String("");
for (int i = 0; i < word.length(); i++) {
if (!result.contains("" + word.charAt(i))) {
result += "" + word.charAt(i);
}
}
return result;
}
This is my solution.
The algorithm is mainly the same as the one in the book "Cracking the code interview" where this exercise comes from, but I tried to improve it a bit and make the code more understandable:
public static void removeDuplicates(char[] str) {
// if string has less than 2 characters, it can't contain
// duplicate values, so there's nothing to do
if (str == null || str.length < 2) {
return;
}
// variable which indicates the end of the part of the string
// which is 'cleaned' (all duplicates removed)
int tail = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
boolean found = false;
// check if character is already present in
// the part of the array before the current char
for (int j = 0; j < i; j++) {
if (str[j] == str[i]) {
found = true;
break;
}
}
// if char is already present
// skip this one and do not copy it
if (found) {
continue;
}
// copy the current char to the index
// after the last known unique char in the array
str[tail] = str[i];
tail++;
}
str[tail] = '\0';
}
One of the important requirements from the book is to do it in-place (as in my solution), which means that no additional data structure should be used as a helper while processing the string. This improves performance by not wasting memory unnecessarily.
char[] chars = s.toCharArray();
HashSet<Character> charz = new HashSet<Character>();
for(Character c : s.toCharArray() )
{
if(!charz.contains(c))
{
charz.add(c);
//System.out.print(c);
}
}
for(Character c : charz)
{
System.out.print(c);
}
public String removeDuplicateChar(String nonUniqueString) {
String uniqueString = "";
for (char currentChar : nonUniqueString.toCharArray()) {
if (!uniqueString.contains("" + currentChar)) {
uniqueString += currentChar;
}
}
return uniqueString;
}
public static void main (String [] args)
{
String s = "aabbbeeddsfre";//sample string
String temp2="";//string with no duplicates
HashMap<Integer,Character> tc = new HashMap<Integer,Character>();//create a hashmap to store the char's
char [] charArray = s.toCharArray();
for (Character c : charArray)//for each char
{
if (!tc.containsValue(c))//if the char is not already in the hashmap
{
temp2=temp2+c.toString();//add the char to the output string
tc.put(c.hashCode(),c);//and add the char to the hashmap
}
}
System.out.println(temp2);//final string
}
instead of HashMap I think we can use Set too.
I understand that this is a Java question, but since I have a nice solution which could inspire someone to convert this into Java, by all means. Also I like answers where multiple language submissions are available to common problems.
So here is a Python solution which is O(n) and also supports the whole ASCII range. Of course it does not treat 'a' and 'A' as the same:
I am using 8 x 32 bits as the hashmap:
Also input is a string array using dedup(list('some string'))
def dedup(str):
map = [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
for i in range(len(str)):
ascii = ord(str[i])
slot = ascii / 32
bit = ascii % 32
bitOn = map[slot] & (1 << bit)
if bitOn:
str[i] = ''
else:
map[slot] |= 1 << bit
return ''.join(str)
also a more pythonian way to do this is by using a set:
def dedup(s):
return ''.join(list(set(s)))
Substringing method. Concatenation is done with .concat() to avoid allocation additional memory for left hand and right hand of +.
Note: This removes even duplicate spaces.
private static String withoutDuplicatesSubstringing(String s){
for(int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++){
String sub = s.substring(i+1);
int index = -1;
while((index = sub.toLowerCase().indexOf(Character.toLowerCase(s.charAt(i)))) > -1 && !sub.isEmpty()){
sub = sub.substring(0, index).concat(sub.substring(index+1, sub.length()));
}
s = s.substring(0, i+1).concat(sub);
}
return s;
}
Test case:
String testCase1 = "nanananaa! baaaaatmaan! batman!";
Output:
na! btm
Question: Remove Duplicate characters in a string
Method 1 :(Python)
import collections
a = "GiniGinaProtijayi"
aa = collections.OrderedDict().fromkeys(a)
print(''.join(aa))
Method 2 :(Python)
a = "GiniGinaProtijayi"
list = []
aa = [ list.append(ch) for ch in a if ch not in list]
print( ''.join(list))
IN Java:
class test2{
public static void main(String[] args) {
String a = "GiniGinaProtijayi";
List<Character> list = new ArrayList<>();
for(int i = 0 ; i < a.length() ;i++) {
char ch = a.charAt(i);
if( list.size() == 0 ) {list.add(ch);}
if(!list.contains(ch)) {list.add(ch) ;}
}//for
StringBuffer sbr = new StringBuffer();
for( char ch : list) {sbr.append(ch);}
System.out.println(sbr);
}//main
}//end
This would be much easier if you just looped through the array and added all new characters to a list, then retruned that list.
With this approach, you need to reshuffle the array as you step through it and eventually redimension it to the appropriate size in the end.
String s = "Javajk";
List<Character> charz = new ArrayList<Character>();
for (Character c : s.toCharArray()) {
if (!(charz.contains(Character.toUpperCase(c)) || charz
.contains(Character.toLowerCase(c)))) {
charz.add(c);
}
}
ListIterator litr = charz.listIterator();
while (litr.hasNext()) {
Object element = litr.next();
System.err.println(":" + element);
} }
this will remove the duplicate if the character present in both the case.
public class RemoveDuplicateInString {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String s = "ABCDDCA";
RemoveDuplicateInString rs = new RemoveDuplicateInString();
System.out.println(rs.removeDuplicate(s));
}
public String removeDuplicate(String s) {
String retn = null;
boolean[] b = new boolean[256];
char[] ch = s.toCharArray();
for (int i = 0; i < ch.length; i++) {
if (b[ch[i]]) {
ch[i]=' ';
}
else {
b[ch[i]] = true;
}
}
retn = new String(ch);
return retn;
}
}
/* program to remove the duplicate character in string */
/* Author senthilkumar M*/
char *dup_remove(char *str)
{
int i = 0, j = 0, l = strlen(str);
int flag = 0, result = 0;
for(i = 0; i < l; i++) {
result = str[i] - 'a';
if(flag & (1 << result)) {
*/* if duplicate found remove & shift the array*/*
for(j = i; j < l; j++) {
str[j] = str[j+1];
}
i--;
l--; /* duplicates removed so string length reduced by 1 character*/
continue;
}
flag |= (1 << result);
}
return str;
}
public class RemoveCharsFromString {
static String testcase1 = "No, I am going to Noida";
static String testcase2 = "goings";
public static void main(String args[])throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException{
RemoveCharsFromString testInstance= new RemoveCharsFromString();
String result = testInstance.remove(testcase1,testcase2);
System.out.println(result);
}
//write your code here
public String remove(String str, String str1)throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException
{ String result=null;
if (str == null)
return "";
try
{
for (int i = 0; i < str1.length (); i++)
{
char ch1=str1.charAt(i);
for(int j=0;j<str.length();j++)
{
char ch = str.charAt (j);
if (ch == ch1)
{
String s4=String.valueOf(ch);
String s5= str.replaceAll(s4, "");
str=s5;
}
}
}
}
catch(Exception e)
{
}
result=str;
return result;
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
char[] str = { 'a', 'b', 'a','b','c','e','c' };
for (int i = 1; i < str.length; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < i; j++) {
if (str[i] == str[j]) {
str[i] = ' ';
}
}
}
System.out.println(str);
}
An improved version for using bitmask to handle 256 chars:
public static void removeDuplicates3(char[] str)
{
long map[] = new long[] {0, 0, 0 ,0};
long one = 1;
for (int i = 0; i < str.length; i++)
{
long chBit = (one << (str[i]%64));
int n = (int) str[i]/64;
if ((map[n] & chBit ) > 0) // duplicate detected
str[i] = 0;
else // add unique char as a bit '1' to the map
map[n] |= chBit ;
}
// get rid of those '\0's
int wi = 1;
for (int i=1; i<str.length; i++)
{
if (str[i]!=0) str[wi++] = str[i];
}
// setting the rest as '\0'
for (;wi<str.length; wi++) str[wi] = 0;
}
Result: "##1!!ASDJasanwAaw.,;..][,[]==--0" ==> "#1!ASDJasnw.,;][=-0" (double quotes not included)
This function removes duplicate from string inline. I have used C# as a coding language and the duplicates are removed inline
public static void removeDuplicate(char[] inpStr)
{
if (inpStr == null) return;
if (inpStr.Length < 2) return;
for (int i = 0; i < inpStr.Length; ++i)
{
int j, k;
for (j = 1; j < inpStr.Length; j++)
{
if (inpStr[i] == inpStr[j] && i != j)
{
for (k = j; k < inpStr.Length - 1; k++)
{
inpStr[k] = inpStr[k + 1];
}
inpStr[k] = ' ';
}
}
}
Console.WriteLine(inpStr);
}
(Java) Avoiding usage of Map, List data structures:
private String getUniqueStr(String someStr) {
StringBuilder uniqueStr = new StringBuilder();
if(someStr != null) {
for(int i=0; i <someStr.length(); i++) {
if(uniqueStr.indexOf(String.valueOf(someStr.charAt(i))) == -1) {
uniqueStr.append(someStr.charAt(i));
}
}
}
return uniqueStr.toString();
}
package com.java.exercise;
public class RemoveCharacter {
/**
* #param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
RemoveCharacter rem = new RemoveCharacter();
char[] ch=rem.GetDuplicates("JavavNNNNNNC".toCharArray());
char[] desiredString="JavavNNNNNNC".toCharArray();
System.out.println(rem.RemoveDuplicates(desiredString, ch));
}
char[] GetDuplicates(char[] input)
{
int ctr=0;
char[] charDupl=new char[20];
for (int i = 0; i <input.length; i++)
{
char tem=input[i];
for (int j= 0; j < i; j++)
{
if (tem == input[j])
{
charDupl[ctr++] = input[j];
}
}
}
return charDupl;
}
public char[] RemoveDuplicates(char[] input1, char []input2)
{
int coutn =0;
char[] out2 = new char[10];
boolean flag = false;
for (int i = 0; i < input1.length; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < input2.length; j++)
{
if (input1[i] == input2[j])
{
flag = false;
break;
}
else
{
flag = true;
}
}
if (flag)
{
out2[coutn++]=input1[i];
flag = false;
}
}
return out2;
}
}
Yet another solution, seems to be the most concise so far:
private static String removeDuplicates(String s)
{
String x = new String(s);
for(int i=0;i<x.length()-1;i++)
x = x.substring(0,i+1) + (x.substring(i+1)).replace(String.valueOf(x.charAt(i)), "");
return x;
}
I have written a piece of code to solve the problem.
I have checked with certain values, got the required output.
Note: It's time consuming.
static void removeDuplicate(String s) {
char s1[] = s.toCharArray();
Arrays.sort(s1); //Sorting is performed, a to z
//Since adjacent values are compared
int myLength = s1.length; //Length of the character array is stored here
int i = 0; //i refers to the position of original char array
int j = 0; //j refers to the position of char array after skipping the duplicate values
while(i != myLength-1 ){
if(s1[i]!=s1[i+1]){ //Compares two adjacent characters, if they are not the same
s1[j] = s1[i]; //if not same, then, first adjacent character is stored in s[j]
s1[j+1] = s1[i+1]; //Second adjacent character is stored in s[j+1]
j++; //j is incremented to move to next location
}
i++; //i is incremented
}
//the length of s is i. i>j
String s4 = new String (s1); //Char Array to String
//s4[0] to s4[j+1] contains the length characters after removing the duplicate
//s4[j+2] to s4[i] contains the last set of characters of the original char array
System.out.println(s4.substring(0, j+1));
}
Feel free to run my code with your inputs. Thanks.
public class RemoveRepeatedCharacters {
/**
* This method removes duplicates in a given string in one single pass.
* Keeping two indexes, go through all the elements and as long as subsequent characters match, keep
* moving the indexes in opposite directions. When subsequent characters don't match, copy value at higher index
* to (lower + 1) index.
* Time Complexity = O(n)
* Space = O(1)
*
*/
public static void removeDuplicateChars(String text) {
char[] ch = text.toCharArray();
int i = 0; //first index
for(int j = 1; j < ch.length; j++) {
while(i >= 0 && j < ch.length && ch[i] == ch[j]) {
i--;
j++;
System.out.println("i = " + i + " j = " + j);
}
if(j < ch.length) {
ch[++i] = ch[j];
}
}
//Print the final string
for(int k = 0; k <= i; k++)
System.out.print(ch[k]);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
String text = "abccbdeefgg";
removeDuplicateChars(text);
}
}
public class StringRedundantChars {
/**
* #param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
//initializing the string to be sorted
String sent = "I love painting and badminton";
//Translating the sentence into an array of characters
char[] chars = sent.toCharArray();
System.out.println("Before Sorting");
showLetters(chars);
//Sorting the characters based on the ASCI character code.
java.util.Arrays.sort(chars);
System.out.println("Post Sorting");
showLetters(chars);
System.out.println("Removing Duplicates");
stripDuplicateLetters(chars);
System.out.println("Post Removing Duplicates");
//Sorting to collect all unique characters
java.util.Arrays.sort(chars);
showLetters(chars);
}
/**
* This function prints all valid characters in a given array, except empty values
*
* #param chars Input set of characters to be displayed
*/
private static void showLetters(char[] chars) {
int i = 0;
//The following loop is to ignore all white spaces
while ('\0' == chars[i]) {
i++;
}
for (; i < chars.length; i++) {
System.out.print(" " + chars[i]);
}
System.out.println();
}
private static char[] stripDuplicateLetters(char[] chars) {
// Basic cursor that is used to traverse through the unique-characters
int cursor = 0;
// Probe which is used to traverse the string for redundant characters
int probe = 1;
for (; cursor < chars.length - 1;) {
// Checking if the cursor and probe indices contain the same
// characters
if (chars[cursor] == chars[probe]) {
System.out.println("Removing char : " + chars[probe]);
// Please feel free to replace the redundant character with
// character. I have used '\0'
chars[probe] = '\0';
// Pushing the probe to the next character
probe++;
} else {
// Since the probe has traversed the chars from cursor it means
// that there were no unique characters till probe.
// Hence set cursor to the probe value
cursor = probe;
// Push the probe to refer to the next character
probe++;
}
}
System.out.println();
return chars;
}
}
This is my solution
public static String removeDup(String inputString){
if (inputString.length()<2) return inputString;
if (inputString==null) return null;
char[] inputBuffer=inputString.toCharArray();
for (int i=0;i<inputBuffer.length;i++){
for (int j=i+1;j<inputBuffer.length;j++){
if (inputBuffer[i]==inputBuffer[j]){
inputBuffer[j]=0;
}
}
}
String result=new String(inputBuffer);
return result;
}
Well I came up with the following solution.
Keeping in mind that S and s are not duplicates. Also I have just one hard coded value.. But the code works absolutely fine.
public static String removeDuplicate(String str)
{
StringBuffer rev = new StringBuffer();
rev.append(str.charAt(0));
for(int i=0; i< str.length(); i++)
{
int flag = 0;
for(int j=0; j < rev.length(); j++)
{
if(str.charAt(i) == rev.charAt(j))
{
flag = 0;
break;
}
else
{
flag = 1;
}
}
if(flag == 1)
{
rev.append(str.charAt(i));
}
}
return rev.toString();
}
I couldn't understand the logic behind the solution so I wrote my simple solution:
public static void removeDuplicates(char[] str) {
if (str == null) return; //If the string is null return
int length = str.length; //Getting the length of the string
if (length < 2) return; //Return if the length is 1 or smaller
for(int i=0; i<length; i++){ //Loop through letters on the array
int j;
for(j=i+1;j<length;j++){ //Loop through letters after the checked letters (i)
if (str[j]==str[i]){ //If you find duplicates set it to 0
str[j]=0;
}
}
}
}
Using guava you can just do something like Sets.newHashSet(charArray).toArray();
If you are not using any libraries, you can still use new HashSet<Char>() and add your char array there.
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main() {
// your code goes here
string str;
cin >> str;
long map = 0;
for(int i =0; i < str.length() ; i++){
if((map & (1L << str[i])) > 0){
str[i] = 0;
}
else{
map |= 1L << str[i];
}
}
cout << str;
return 0;
}