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I don't think that this algorithm will be faster in most cases. Here is why I think so:
1. The StartsWith will compare at most the length of common, but at least as much as the length of the match
2. LastIndexOf will compare the difference between the current guess at the common string and the next guess at the common string
3. Taking the substring will require the length of common to copy.
So the only time that I can think of where this algorithm would save time would be if you have two non-matching directories that start identically, such as "Food for thought" and "Food for thomas", and those are the ONLY directories you are comparing. Assuming that this is not the case (typical, since there are thousands of entries), the other way cuts out the expenses from parts 2 and 3. The other issue that I see with this is that if you have 3500 paths, and the first 200 fall into a directory that is NOT going to end up as the common directory, you spend a lot of extra time being told that these directories in fact do match a directory that doesn't matter. I also think that directory names in windows are case-sensitive, so the suggestion on making the comparison case-insensitive is unnecessary and takes more time (since you have to then convert the chars to lowercase). One thing that I do like is the suggestion to compare the first and last if they are already sorted (doubtful since you don't already know the common directory). The assumption made as to the efficiency of this algorithm also depends on the collection being "roughly" sorted, that is that the first and last directories differ significantly, which will reduce the amount of time wasted on using "StartsWith". Anyway, those are the reasons that I would stick with the other algorithm myself.
Jeff
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There are many reasons why the character-based approach will not perform as well as one
would hope, including character indexing cost, cache inefficiency, etc. My approach makes
use of StartsWith which I assume is highly optimized, traverses the string collection only
once and for each string uses all the characters at once, drastically increasing the
level 1 cache efficiency.
If you really want to know, implement both and run some relevant tests.
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Cache efficiency almost certainly gets better with this method. I am interested in the result of timing the two algorithms if c#_keithy takes the time to do it. If so, let us know which performs better on your data and maybe any noticable tendencies in the dataset you used.
Jeff
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Cheers everyone, your input was greatly appreciated, the algorithm was needed to find the path that was recursively scanned to populate the database with file content information.
Am still working on an implementation of the algorithm using alphabetic sorting and comparing the top and bottom records, using a for loop
For now I am just storing meta data on the database so that I can automatically tell what path was scanned
Give me strength, give me caffeine
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I would like to display a password in a DataGridViewTextBoxColumn. I want the password to be shown as characters ie. *. How can I achieve this?
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there are more technics to solve ur problem:
and this is on of them:
u can add the temprory field to your gridview and then on it add a textbox with special name such as pass then put your favorite info from your db (for example...).
now you must to write below code in the rowcommand event of your gridview:
object obj=gridview.rows[index rows].findcontroll("pass");
textbox txt=(textbox)obj;
and in this step you must to write your favorite character instead of the real password.
txt is a object that contain information of the pass word for each rows that seperate by index rows.
good luck
nobody help you...
you have to help you yourself
and this is success way.
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Hi all
I have created a window service which just starts a thread on its start method.it was working fine.Now when i stopped the service and just restart the service without any changes i am getting an error
"could not restart the service
The service didnot respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion"
Why is it so.Can any one pls help me
Thanks in advance
Regards
DilipRam
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Hi
I an only guess that something bad happen in your OnStart method After you stop the service and restart it.
Use try catch block in order to process any exception thrown,
And log the error message to the event log in order to track down the bug.
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Thanks for the reply
Regards
DilipRam
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I want to do a math calculation for time
Like 12:31:01 - 05:12:12 and so on...
anyone wanna give me a little help .. i'll really appreciate it
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Use a DateTime object and perform the calculation with that. The result will be a TimeSpan object.
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thank you very much .. i managed to get it to work
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hi
I have a XML like"row BLDG_CDE="01 100" BLDG_AMENITY_TYPE_CDE="DFA" BLDG_AMENITY_AVG_SAVINGS_AMT="6666.00" BLDG_AMENITY_RMRK=""/
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Have a look at the XmlTextReader class.
Use MoveToFirstAttribute, MoveToNextAttribute and ReadAttributeValue methods to read the value for each attribute.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmltextreader.aspx
Paul
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Hi,
i want to make chat programm for wan,not for lan ,any PC connected with internet.Like yahoo messanger.please help me
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You would need a publicly available (on the internet) server for that. other than that. search CP for "chat server" there are alot of great articles on both UDP and TCP servers and clients
If it' stuck, DO NOT pull harder!
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Greetings,
I am having C# project that make the Executable also. The system use over 20 users' machines. Currently I installed the exe indidual machines coping the source and it is tedious task to do! When i have to do any modification in existing, then again i have to make the setup.exe and installed individual machine.
Are their any way to do this task simple? like one VB.exe(in share folder in LAN), create shortcut and running ncely noh! like that!!!
Any learning resources, plz send me!!! U r Welcome!
Thanks in advance!
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This sounds like a candidate for ClickOnce. This[^] article should give you some idea of what it's all about, and how to set it up.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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No problem.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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storing session data in a separate in-memory cache?
What's mean of separate in-memory cache?
Soniagupta1@yahoo.co.in
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Please - don't start new posts for extensions to old ones. You're cluttering up the forums.
This topic means that you are storing the data in a separate process to the process your ASP.NET application runs in. The reason that you do this is because the InProc process is tied to the thread/application that created it. In other words, if your website is running on a multi-processor server then having InProc for your site is a bad idea because the in-proc session is per processor.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Actually , I was going through the link , u povided.There i am facing these terminlologies, which i am being able to understand.If u please repeat the meaning of it.
Thanks
Soniagupta1@yahoo.co.in
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This was an adjunct question to a previous post, so should have been asked there or on the article. By creating a new thread, others who might have similar questions, have been deprived of seeing that these topics are linked.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Hi, im trying to get my head around structs. Whats the difference between using the following?
public struct aStruct
{
public int sId;
};
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Program prog = new Program();
aStruct theStruct;
theStruct.sId = 5;
or
aStruct theStruct = new aStruct();
theStruct.sId = 5;
}
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