• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
programming forums Java Mobile Certification Databases Caching Books Engineering Micro Controllers OS Languages Paradigms IDEs Build Tools Frameworks Application Servers Open Source This Site Careers Other Pie Elite all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
Marshals:
  • Campbell Ritchie
  • Jeanne Boyarsky
  • Ron McLeod
  • Paul Clapham
  • Liutauras Vilda
Sheriffs:
  • paul wheaton
  • Rob Spoor
  • Devaka Cooray
Saloon Keepers:
  • Stephan van Hulst
  • Tim Holloway
  • Carey Brown
  • Frits Walraven
  • Tim Moores
Bartenders:
  • Mikalai Zaikin

Parsing words

 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 473
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Hi,

I am trying to get a clean 15 characters after and before a target word but if the word is on either side repeated in those characters, I want to select the characters only before that. In the second method "java" I am trying to do this but not being very successful. Please read code and help





The class ConditionPosition is just a wrapper. See it here:



Thanks in advance,

Maki Jav
 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 457
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
0th suggestion: use CODE tags rather than quote tags

First suggestion: use an List of Integers rather than an array of ints. I doubt that super-speed is an issue here.

If you're using Java 5.0 or highter:



with autoboxing, you can add an int to the array


[ February 07, 2008: Message edited by: Bill Shirley ]
 
Maki Jav
Ranch Hand
Posts: 473
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Hi,

I used code tags

I really need top-notch speed because this method will be used in applet that will be searching
in thousands of files on the client. Don't worry about permissions. I have tested that already
So you see I want int array.

Your reply is not related to my solution

Thanks,

Maki Jav
 
Rancher
Posts: 43081
77
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I haven't looked at what the code does in detail, but if you're reading from that many files, then file I/O speed is going to drown out any difference there could conceivably be between using arrays and using collections.
 
Bill Shirley
Ranch Hand
Posts: 457
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Yes, I agree with Ulf. If files are involved, the I/O cost will trump any reasonable processing.

I know this is NotACodeMill, but I was inspired to rework some of your code. Here's my cut (it could always be better) at the base of your code (with the crux of your problem not solved).



Edit: I think for readability's sake, a while loop is desired here:


[ February 08, 2008: Message edited by: Bill Shirley ]
 
Maki Jav
Ranch Hand
Posts: 473
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Well guys,

I have worked on IO and I was able to search word in a 2mb Ms Word file in 500 milliseconds. Everything counts!

Thank you,

Maki Jav
 
Maki Jav
Ranch Hand
Posts: 473
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I want a sentence in three parts

eg:
xxxxxxWORDxxxxx

or if there is WORDxxxxWORDxxWORD

then three lines as String []array
1)WORDxxxx
2)xxxxWORDxx
3)xxWORD

Thank you,

Maki Jav
 
Bill Shirley
Ranch Hand
Posts: 457
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Sounds great. If you've got the I/O solutions under your belt, that's more than half the hurdle. There are certainly a million and one buffering, et al. solutions you can apply to those.

Still, I'd attack the problem as
1) solve your algorithm
2) test the speed
3) profile to find the culprit
4) refactor the snails out

If you solve it first in a "more OO" way, it should make your conversion to the bare-bones implementation much easier.

You could also code regression/unit tests against your code, so that when you start super-charging it you already have those sanity checks in place.

Just my 2�.
 
Maki Jav
Ranch Hand
Posts: 473
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Thank you for your advice Bill.

I hope that I am having a bad patch programming-wise so I am not being able to get the results I am looking for in the second method, namely, "java"

Maki Jav
 
Maki Jav
Ranch Hand
Posts: 473
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Hi,

This change to the method has done the trick

Thanks,

Maki Jav
[ February 09, 2008: Message edited by: Maki Jav ]
 
Maki Jav
Ranch Hand
Posts: 473
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Bill,

I just tested using BufferedReader to text read file with following porperties:

location: d:/dump.txt
it contains 39245 lines - size 1.00 MB (1,048,576 bytes)

time taken by my code with following conditions:
median 469 milliseconds -
BufferedReader.readLine(); // read 39245 lines
// checked them all for condition
if(String.toLowerCase().indexOf("behave")>-1)

median 344 milliseconds -
BufferedReader.readLine();// read 39245 lines only.

125 milliseconds difference for if statement only.

Results are on Intel PIII 797MHZ 256 MB of Ram.

So you see it is good performance

What you say?

Maki Jav
 
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic