Thread: Comparing similar elements in an array

Dear All-

While working on a programming in (Basic Language) which we use for translating our customers data into ERP system, I came across an issue where I need to write the data to SQL. I am done with that but here is the problem.

There is possibility that customer sends same part in different lines and I want to catch that instance of same part and write the occurrence of how many times the part is coming.

Since there is a lot of limitation in basic programming language I am not able to catch the instances of how many times
the part shows up or may be i dont know advance basic programming (since i am a novice). However the software allows use of Java programming inside basic programming.

I wanted to know how to implement the solution for the above problem in Java.

I have defined an array in Basic of n rows and 14 columns. These 14 columns refer to 14 columns
of SQL table. The array is given below to be specific.
Details[1000][14]
One of the columns (column 7) is a counter which counts for the repetition of the occurrence of same part.
so for example in the above scenario


For Example: The Array will have.
Line PartNo other col Counter
Line1 PartA …. 1
Line2 PartB …. 1
Line14 PartC …. 1
Line9 PartA …. 2 (repeated second time so 2)
Line5 PartD … 1
Line70 PartB …. 2 (repeated second time so 2)
Line90 PartA …. 3 (repeated second time so 3)

Hope I was able to explain the problem. My ask is to how to capture the repeated occurrences and write the n number of occurrences into Column named counter.
Please note that the Line Column is not in serial order.

Thanks for your help.
FJ

Hey!
Did you try using the String1.compareTo(String2) while using for loop to check all the occurences.
Hope this helps
Cheers

Look at all the String class methods. There are several that will be useful.