Re: String issue.. - C# Discussion Boards

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.10-Feb-09 7:14

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.

10-Feb-09 7:14

Lots of them but this looks like homework.
I imagine the Vector class is somewhere in your near future and use of the contains method.

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If you don't ask questions the answers won't stand in your way.

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Luc Pattyn10-Feb-09 7:16

Luc Pattyn

10-Feb-09 7:16

Hi,

this would be my attempt:
- strip all redundant characters from each string, probably every non-letter;
- optionally: normalize the casing, say convert all strings to lower-case;
- collect the strings in a List<string>, however before adding them, check whether the new string
is already present; if so you found a duplicate.
(you can improve on this by using a Dictionary which holds the string as a key, and the occurence
count as an int value).

BTW: why ask for an algorithm in a language oriented forum that does not match your language?
we do have a "Math and algorithms" forum.

Smile | :)

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Ravadre10-Feb-09 7:19

10-Feb-09 7:19

Luc Pattyn wrote:
BTW: why ask for an algorithm in a language oriented forum that does not match your language?
we do have a "Math and algorithms" forum.

Is not the forum called "Algorithms", I don't see "Math" there? Smile | :)

Luc Pattyn10-Feb-09 7:21

Luc Pattyn

10-Feb-09 7:21

Ravadre wrote:
Is not the forum called "Algorithms",

it has been called "Algorithms and Math", as well as "Math and algorithms" before.
However you are right, this week it is called "Algorithms". Laugh | :laugh:

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lawrenceinba10-Feb-09 19:11

lawrenceinba

10-Feb-09 19:11

try using regular expressions....using remove method.. removing pattern[0-9]

the quieter u become more u hear

URL holder for a web crawler.

ventomito11-Feb-09 4:37

ventomito

11-Feb-09 4:37

great idea lawrenceinba! but what do you mean with "removing the pattern"?
i'm not sure to understand this way..

Program your life ^^

emmmatty110-Feb-09 6:34

emmmatty1

10-Feb-09 6:34

Hi,
I am a developing an webcrawler in c#. The crawler will take a url from the user and crawls through the page pointed by that url fetching the urls it can find from the page.This is a recurring activity and the output is a huge collection of strings/urls.

Please tell me which is the best holder for such a huge data. I considered access database but it makes the application slow since reading and writing is a frequent activity.

Thanks,
John.

Re: URL holder for a web crawler.

musefan10-Feb-09 6:49

musefan

10-Feb-09 6:49

you could try a StreamWriter straight to a file

If only MySelf.Visible was more than just a getter...

Need Help getting bits from bytes.

Muratus10-Feb-09 6:34

10-Feb-09 6:34

Well, I'm about to pull my hair out on this. So I figured I'd post for help before I cause some premature baldness.

I'm fairly new to C# and have run into this problem trying to get info out of a int byte that I get returned.

Here is what is stated in the lib that I'm working with:

The first three bits represent a single value, not flags.
For example Auction (0x05) is not a combination of OwnedByOther (0x01) and ForSale(0x04). However, the BorderWest and BorderSouth values are bit flags that get attached to the value stored in the first three bits. Bits four, five, and six are unused.

public enum OverlayType : byte
{ Public = 0,
OwnedByOther = 1,
OwnedByGroup = 2,
OwnedBySelf = 3,
ForSale = 4,
Auction = 5,
BorderWest = 64,
BorderSouth = 128
}

So where I'm lost is trying to get the first 3 bits out and get the enum OverlayType from them. Plus the BoarderWest & BorderSouth.

musefan10-Feb-09 6:48

musefan

10-Feb-09 6:48

Im a bit confused as to what you are trying to do?

If only MySelf.Visible was more than just a getter...

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.10-Feb-09 7:12

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.

10-Feb-09 7:12

mask them

byte someByte ...;
byte masked = (someByte & 0xE) >> 2;

Don't trust my math on the bit shift though I was just guessing.

Ravadre10-Feb-09 7:15

Re: Need Help getting bits from bytes. [modified]

10-Feb-09 7:15

Hello,

You would split your byte before checking for flags (borders) or values (<=5).

OverlayType value = (OverlayType)(type & 0x7); <br />
OverlayType flags = (OverlayType)(type & 0xC0);<br />

Or just do mask bits every time you need to check values from your byte. When checking for flags you don't care about lesser 3 bits, when checking for values, you just need to mask higher bits.

I'm not sure if I understand you well though, so I don't know if this is going to be any help.

Muratus10-Feb-09 7:40

10-Feb-09 7:40

ok, thanks. That's starting to make a bit of sence.

What I'm trying to do is check if it is Forsale and if so what are the BorderWest & BorderSouth.

the BorderWest & BorderSouth should each be a number. I got this working to identify what type it is. But now how do I get those boarder numbers?

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Ravadre10-Feb-09 9:24

10-Feb-09 9:24

the BorderWest & BorderSouth should each be a number. I got this working to identify what type it is. But now how do I get those boarder numbers?

In your example Borders are bit flags, so what do you mean by "border numbers"? They don't have a number, they are set or no.

Muratus10-Feb-09 9:56

10-Feb-09 9:56

hhmm, somewhere in there is a set of coordanants for the item. To locate it.

The summary part of that is:
"However, the BorderWest and BorderSouth values are bit flags that get attached to the value stored in the first three bits. Bits four, five, and six are unused"

That's what has been really confusing me. Trying to find those.

How can I just print out all the values in original int byte. Maybe just seeing whats in there I can locate the coords.

Thanks again for all your help.

Ravadre10-Feb-09 10:14

10-Feb-09 10:14

Hello,

You are giving incomplete information or I can't understand your point.
You have a byte, that is what you have said. It has 2 bit flags (borderw, borders), which are set or not and some sort values, which I'm not sure what they do. Now your asking about getting sets of coordinates, without saying what they really are and from where you would like to get them. I'm confused Smile | :)

Muratus10-Feb-09 10:53

Re: Need Help getting bits from bytes. [modified]

10-Feb-09 10:53

I'm confused also. lol.

What this does is it sets a color on part of a grid based off of the type it is. So it's supposted to give the info for the type, to know what color to set. Then it's also supposted to hold the coords for where on the grid to set the color.

In part of the summary about the borders says "the BorderWest and BorderSouth values are bit flags that get attached to the value stored in the first three bits."

I assumed that ment that the coords are stored in the first three bits. The first part seems to be working correctly returning the correct type (Public, ForSale, etc). But with out the coords it doesn't help much.

I'm now trying to learn how to just view all the int values in the byte to try locate the coords.

#realJSOP10-Feb-09 9:59

#realJSOP

10-Feb-09 9:59

First, you need to learn about the <pre> tag so you can post your code correctly.

Second, what you want to do is this:

[Flags]
public enum OverlayTypes 
{    Public       = 0,
     OwnedByOther = 1,
     OwnedByGroup = 2,
     OwnedBySelf  = 4,
     ForSale      = 8,
     Auction      = 16,
     BorderWest   = 32,
     BorderSouth  = 64
}

Then, you can do something like this:

OverlayTypes types = OverlayTypes.OwnedBySelf | OverlayTypes.ForSale | OverlayTypes.BorderWest;
if ((types & OverlayTypes.OwnedBySelf) == OverlayTypes.OwnedBySelf)
{
    MessageBox.Show("Owned by self");
}

You could even do this:

OverlayTypes types = OverlayTypes.OwnedBySelf | OverlayTypes.ForSale | OverlayTypes.BorderWest;
OverlayTypes theseTypes = OverlayTypes.OwnedBySelf | OverlayTypes.BorderWest;
if ((types & theseTypes) == theseTypes)
{
    MessageBox.Show("Owned by self, and borders west");
}

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