Re: StatsTable object

From:

Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:53:27 +0200

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On 12.09.2011 16:00, Jeff Higgins wrote:

On 09/12/2011 04:23 AM, bob wrote:

I'm creating an object that represents a table of sports stats with
the player name as the first column and stat name as first row.
Here's an example:

Touchdowns Yards Rushing Yards Passing
Dan Marino 2 200 55
Chad Henne 8 700 53
Brett Favre 7 300 44
Emmitt Smith 4 400 108

What's the best way to represent this object in Java?

I'm thinking of this:

class StatsTable {
vector<String> strings;
int numColumns;
int numRows;
}

What do you all think of this representation? I think it would be
better if it had a more 2-dimensional feel, but I don't want to
complicate things.

import java.util.Vector;

public class Scratch {

public static void main(String[] args) {
StatsTable stats = new StatsTable();
stats.numColumns = 4;
stats.numRows = 5;
stats.strings = new Vector<String>();
stats.strings.add("Player");
stats.strings.add("Touchdowns");
stats.strings.add("Yards Rushing");
stats.strings.add("Yards Passing");
stats.strings.add("Dan Marino");
stats.strings.add("Chad Henne");
stats.strings.add("Brett Favre");
stats.strings.add("Emmitt Smith");
stats.strings.add("2");
stats.strings.add("8");
stats.strings.add("7");
stats.strings.add("4");
stats.strings.add("200");
stats.strings.add("700");
stats.strings.add("300");
stats.strings.add("400");
stats.strings.add("55");
stats.strings.add("53");
stats.strings.add("44");
stats.strings.add("108");
}

static class StatsTable {
Vector<String> strings;
int numColumns;
int numRows;
}

}

Note that you can also do:

List<String> names = Arrays.asList("Player", "Touchdowns" ,...);

Kind regards

robert

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