DWITE NOVEMBER 25 2005 PROBLEM 3 SOLUTION

[xXInsanityXx]

Hi i was wondering if you guys can give me suggestions,feedback, and simplifications to this code. Please feel free to criticize as much as you want.

Please and Thank You

NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT CLAIM THIS CODE AS YOURS -not that its that great-

[MysticVegeta]

May I ask where the code is?

[Hikaru79]

Attached to his post?

[MysticVegeta]

I cannot see it

[Hikaru79]

Hm, wierd =/ I'll upload it to this post. Can you see it on mine?

[MysticVegeta]

yeah, heres mine by the ways.

Turing:

var fi, fo : int open : fi, "DATA31.txt", get open : fo, "OUT31.txt", put var lines : string var numbers : array 1 .. 5 of int var syl : string := "24682" var current, high, lineno, original : int := 0 fcn wordCount (word : string) : int     var count := 0     for s : 1 .. length (word)         if word (s) = " " or word (s) = "-" then             count += 1         end if     end for     result count + 1 end wordCount proc errors     for x : 1 .. 5         numbers (x) := strint (syl (x)) - numbers (x)         if numbers (x) not= 0 then             current := abs (numbers (x))             if current > high then                 original := numbers (x)                 high := current                 lineno := x             end if         end if     end for end errors for s : 1 .. 5     for x : 1 .. 5         get : fi, lines : *         numbers (x) := wordCount (lines)     end for     errors     if abs (original) = original then         put : fo, "LINE ", lineno, " - ", original, " SYLLABLE(S) TOO FEW"     else         put : fo, "LINE ", lineno, " - ", abs (original), " SYLLABLE(S) TOO MANY"     end if     lineno := 0     original := 0     current := 0     high := 0 end for close (fi) close (fo)

I dont know if this is the original one or the bad one.. I sorta screwed up my folder because I was p!ssed earlier. lol

[Cervantes]

MysticVegeta: Weren't you supposed to put nothing if all the lines are correct? And won't that put "LINE 0 - 0 SYLLABLE(S) TOO FEW"?

[Hikaru79]

This sort of problem is where Java's beautiful library comes in handy. One line,

Java:

StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer (in.readLine()," -");

and the whole question just falls apart When you're on a timed contest, this sort of thing is great.

[MysticVegeta]

Cervantes wrote:

MysticVegeta: Weren't you supposed to put nothing if all the lines are correct? And won't that put "LINE 0 - 0 SYLLABLE(S) TOO FEW"?

Never said that one the question that all lines will be correct.

Hikaru: What does the String.Tokenizer do?

[Hikaru79]

MysticVegeta wrote:

Cervantes wrote:

MysticVegeta: Weren't you supposed to put nothing if all the lines are correct? And won't that put "LINE 0 - 0 SYLLABLE(S) TOO FEW"?

Never said that one the question that all lines will be correct.

Hikaru: What does the String.Tokenizer do?

StringTokenizer splits up a string based on the presence of certain characters. Notice how when I call the StringTokenizer constructor, I gave it an argument " -"? What that does is take a String, and break it into a different piece whenever it finds a space or a '-' character -- basically solving the problem for you. Then you simply have to count the amount of Tokens that StringTokenizer gives you, and voila, you know how many syllables there are

[MysticVegeta]

Dont you need two of these commands, 1 for " ", and other for "-"? Also, mind telling me the stringSplit command in Java? Thanks a lot

[Hikaru79]

MysticVegeta wrote:

Dont you need two of these commands, 1 for " ", and other for "-"?

Nope The second parameter is optional, but if you give it, it treats every single character in the string as a delimiter. No need to tokenize the tokens twice, that would just be painful. StringTokenizer is a powerful tool, I think I use it on just about every contest I've ever written.

MysticVegeta wrote:

Also, mind telling me the stringSplit command in Java? Thanks a lot

I've never heard of a stringSplit method, sorry

[Cervantes]

MysticVegeta wrote:

Dont you need two of these commands, 1 for " ", and other for "-"?

Notice that the parameter he passed in contained two characters: a space and a hyphen. I assume that it would tokenize the string based on every character in that string parameter. Seems to me that it would make more sense if it passed in an array of characters. That would also give more flexibility: you could tokenize the string at space, hyphen, and a double hyphen.

[MysticVegeta]

Yeah I noticed it before posting too but then I thought about it and thought that since "-" and " " form 1 string, maybe it would tokenize the part where it would find " -". If it does otherwise, how can we tokenize a string with more than 1 character?

[Hikaru79]

Cervantes wrote:

MysticVegeta wrote:

Dont you need two of these commands, 1 for " ", and other for "-"?

Notice that the parameter he passed in contained two characters: a space and a hyphen. I assume that it would tokenize the string based on every character in that string parameter. Seems to me that it would make more sense if it passed in an array of characters. That would also give more flexibility: you could tokenize the string at space, hyphen, and a double hyphen.

Hmm, that's an excellent idea. I don't know why Sun never thought of that.

Perhaps I'll make a class Extending StringTokenizer which can do just that