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Thread: Need help with concatenizing char? to string?

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    Default Need help with concatenizing char? to string?

    I'm stuck, and having a bump in my program, here is a little snippet of the contructor just ot give you an idea.

    To Sum it up - I am running the letterCount to take in a string set by the client. It will take that string, and tally how many occurences of each letter occurs within that string inside an array of 26 (26 letter in alphabet).

    0 = A
    1 = B
    2 = C

    etc etc.

    If the client passed a string of "AAAB", then the array would have the value 3 in index 0.

    So The main issue lies within the 2nd code i posted, my toString method. I am required to have the toString method return a string representation of my letterCount object.

    For example, using my example above, index[0] will have value of 3 - because we stored 3 letter 'a's previously, and index[1] would have had 1.

    I need the toString method.. to somehow.. take those values and output it back out again? and return it as a string? I've been only able to list them back out as println's and i'm quite stumped on how to put it back together as a single string..

    The expected string should produce :

    [aaab]


    So my question is - I kind of need pointers or help on how I can, instead of printing values one after another, just return a full single string representations.



    PHP Code:
            private int[] letterData

        public 
    LetterCount(String data){
                
    letterData = new int[26];
                
    sizeCount 0;
            
            
    String s data;
            
    s.toLowerCase();
        
            for( 
    int i 026Yi++){
                
    char result = (char) ('a' i);
                
                for(
    int x0s.length(); x++) {
                    if(
    s.charAt(x) == result){
                        
    letterData[i]++;
                        
    sizeCount++;
                    }
                }
            } 


    I am having issues with this method, I know I'm not doing it right..



    PHP Code:
        public String toString(){    
                
                    for( 
    int y 026y++){            
                            for( 
    int w 0letterData[y] ; w++){
                                
    System.out.print((char)('a'+y));
                            }
                } 


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    Default Re: Need help with concatenizing char? to string?

    How about...

            final StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
     
            for (int y = 0; y < 26; y++) {
                for (int w = 0; w < letterData[y]; w++) {
                    stringBuilder.append((char) ('a' + y));
                }
            }
     
            return stringBuilder.toString();

    ooooooooooooooor...

            String output = "";
     
            for (int y = 0; y < 26; y++) {
                for (int w = 0; w < letterData[y]; w++) {
                    output = output.concat(Character.toString((char) ('a' + y)));
                }
            }
     
            return output;

    I'd use the StringBuilder

    Enjoy!

    // Json
    Last edited by Json; October 16th, 2009 at 03:56 AM.

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    Default Re: Need help with concatenizing char? to string?

    I'll give those a try - i seriously just went BRAIN DEAD on how to actually concatenate it all together.

    Much thanks!

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    Default Re: Need help with concatenizing char? to string?

    If thats everything, using "Thread Tools" could you please mark this thread as solved.

    Thanks,
    Chris

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