Re: delete repeated letters in a word

From:
"Daniel Pitts" <googlegroupie@coloraura.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
12 Feb 2007 13:22:32 -0800
Message-ID:
<1171315352.705390.233580@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
On Feb 9, 4:10 am, Michael Rauscher <michlm...@gmx.de> wrote:

spidey12345 wrote:

ok, fine, i am using hashset:)

but which function in there allow me to delete repeated values or 0,
that is not character


Why do you use an array? You don't even need a HashSet if speed doesn't
matter.

Untested (I even didn't tried to compile it) code:

public String removeDuplicateLetters( String word ) {
     if ( word == null )
         return null;

     StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
     for ( int i = 0, n = word.length(); i < n; i++ ) {
         String sub = word.substring(i,i+1);
         if ( builder.indexOf(sub) == -1 )
             builder.append(sub);
     }

     return builder.toString();

}

If you want to use a HashSet due to performance reasons the only thing
you'd have to replace is the if-condition and of course, you'd have to
add the element to the Set.

Bye
Michael


This might be a little better:
Its known to compile and run, for one thing.
public class Test2 {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final String s = "My string has a lot of duplicate letters";
        final StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(s);
        for (int i = 0; i < builder.length(); ++i) {
            final String charStr =
Character.toString(builder.charAt(i));
            int index = builder.indexOf(charStr, i+1);
            while (index > i) {
                builder.deleteCharAt(index);
                index = builder.indexOf(charStr, index);
            }
        }
        System.out.println(builder.toString());
    }
}

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