Re: More Java Than WebObjects
Re: More Java Than WebObjects
- Subject: Re: More Java Than WebObjects
- From: Daniel Mejia <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 01:08:10 -0500
Why do you want to count the spaces, could no be easier to count only
the commas?
Daniel.
On Jun 12, 2004, at 12:01 AM, email@hidden
wrote:
>
> From: Sam Barnum <email@hidden>
> Date: June 11, 2004 2:37:49 PM CDT
> To: WebObjects WebObjects <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: More Java Than WebObjects
>
>
> You might also take a look at java.io.StreamTokenizer, which has quote
> support built-in. Maybe overkill, but nice to use something that's
> already there.
>
> On Jun 11, 2004, at 9:39 AM, Jonathan Fleming wrote:
>
>>> From: Adam Ramadan <email@hidden>
>>> To: Jonathan Fleming <email@hidden>
>>> Subject: Re: More Java Than WebObjects
>>> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:54:35 -0400
>>>
>>> A simple approach would be to add a boolean variable, inQuote, and
>>> use that to track whether or not you're within a quoted phrase. So
>>> asy ou are iterating through the characters and reach a quote you
>>> set inQuote <- !inQuote, and when you reach a whitespace character
>>> you can use the value of inQuote to decide whether to count the
>>> word.
>>
>> What happens if the user has accidently only supplied one open quote
>> and not a closed quote? If I use your approach, which sounded good at
>> first, I'd end up not reading enough spaces therefore having too many
>> words... afterthought: but then I could set the boolean to look for a
>> second quotation mark, else count the spaces... yeah maybe your
>> approach is good afterall, i'll try it.
>>
>> regards
>> Jonathan
>>
>>> For anything more complicated you might want to look at regular
>>> expressions.
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>> Jonathan Fleming wrote:
>>>
>>>> What's the best way to write code that will count the spaces
>>>> between each word but not prases that are sourounded by double
>>>> quotation marks eg. there are 2 phrases in the example below making
>>>> up a total of 6 words (6 spaces), but how can avoid counting the
>>>> spaces in the phrases?:
>>>> walls, plumbing, "painting & decorating", decorating, "concrete
>>>> mixing truck", concreting, bricklayers
>>>>
>>>> This is the code I have so far:
>>>>
>>>> public static String wordCounter(String s, int numOfWords){
>>>> int wordCounter=0;
>>>> int numToReduce=0;
>>>> for (int index=0;index<s.length();index++) {
>>>> char c = s.charAt(index);
>>>> if (Character.isWhitespace(c)) {wordCounter++;} //
>>>> Counts the spaces.
>>>> }
>>>> if (wordCounter > numOfWords) {
>>>> numToReduce=wordCounter - numOfWords;
>>>> throw new NSValidation.ValidationException
>>>> ("You are only allowed to enter "+numOfWords+" words,
>>>> but you have entered "+wordCounter+". <br />"+
>>>> "You'll need to delete any "+numToReduce+" of these
>>>> words.");
>>>> }
>>>> return s;
>>>> }
>>>>
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