So I was solving a problem that required me to put unique characters in a string without using a data structure.
fun main(){
val s1 = "fhfnfnfjuw"
val s2 = "Osayuki"
val s3 = "Raymond"
val s4 = "Aseosa"
uniqueChar(s1)
}
fun uniqueChar(s: String){
val updatedString = ""
s.forEach {c ->
if (!updatedString.contains(c)){
updatedString.plus(c)
}
}
println(updatedString)
}
And getting this error
I'm not sure what's going on and why I'm getting a blank. I'm sure it's an easy fix, but I can't see it. Any help is appreciated.
updatedString.plus(c) does not change updatedString. It creates a new string, including the character c. Since you don't do anything with that, the new string goes...nowhere.
Instead, you probably wanted updatedString = updatedString.plus(c) -- or something better with StringBuilder, but that's the closest version to your code.
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I am trying to replace a few sub strings inside a string. But my code doesn't seem to work.
val listOfMaleWords = listOf(" him", " he", " his")
val listOfFemaleWords = listOf(" her", " she", " her")
fun modifyIdeaForGender(rawIdea : String, desiredGender : String): String {
var theRawIdea = rawIdea
if (desiredGender == "FEMALE") {
println("desired gender is FEMALE")
listOfMaleWords.forEachIndexed { index, element ->
theRawIdea.replace(element, listOfFemaleWords[index])
}
} else {
println("desired gender is MALE")
listOfFemaleWords.forEachIndexed { index, element ->
theRawIdea.replace(element, listOfMaleWords[index])
}
}
return theRawIdea
}
fun main() {
var sampleString : String = "Tell him, he is special"
println(modifyIdeaForGender(sampleString, "FEMALE"))
}
Expected Output :
"Tell her, she is special"
Current Output :
"Tell him, he is special" // no change
Whats wrong with my code? The current output doesn't replace the string characters at all.
replace returns a new String that you are discarding immediately. It does not mutate theRawIdea itself, so you should assign it back to theRawIdea yourself. For example:
theRawIdea = theRawIdea.replace(element, listOfFemaleWords[index])
Though this would modify theRawIdea as you desire, it wouldn't replace the pronouns correctly. Once it replaces the "him"s with "her"s, it would try to replace the "he"s with "she"s. But note that "he" a substring of "her"! So this would produce:
Tell sher, she is special
This could be fixed by reordering the lists, putting the "he"-"she" pair first, or by using regex, adding \b word boundary anchors around the words:
// note that you should not have spaces before the words if you decide to use \b
val listOfMaleWords = listOf("him", "he", "his")
val listOfFemaleWords = listOf("her", "she", "her")
...
theRawIdea = theRawIdea.replace("\\b$element\\b".toRegex(), listOfFemaleWords[index])
Note that this doesn't account for capitalisation or the fact that changing from female gender pronouns to male ones is inherently broken. Your current code would change all her to him. It would require some more complicated natural language processing to accurately do this task in general.
Taking all that into account, I've rewritten your code with zip:
fun modifyMaleIdeaToFemaleGender(rawIdea : String): String {
var theRawIdea = rawIdea
// if you really want to do the broken female to male case, then this would be
// listOfFemaleWords zip listOfMaleWords
// and the loop below can stay the same
val zipped = listOfMaleWords zip listOfFemaleWords
zipped.forEach { (target, replacement) ->
theRawIdea = theRawIdea.replace("\\b$target\\b".toRegex(), replacement)
}
return theRawIdea
}
You can also use fold to avoid reassigning theRawIdea:
fun modifyIdeaToFemaleGender(rawIdea : String): String {
val zipped = listOfMaleWords zip listOfFemaleWords
return zipped.fold(rawIdea) { acc, (target, replacement) ->
acc.replace("\\b$target\\b".toRegex(), replacement)
}
}
Your code assumes that the replace() method performs an in-place mutation of the string. However, the string with the replaced values are returned by the replace(). So you need to change your code to contain something like:
theRawIdea = theRawIdea.replace(element, listOfFemaleWords[index])
To do this, you will have to use a conventional loop instead of listOfMaleWords.forEachIndexed style looping.
This is my first Kotlin project. I am learning as I go and I have reached a roadblock.
I have an ArrayList of questions that I want to pull into that app in a random order. I've tried assigning the .random to the point where the question is assigned (right now it is set to CurrentPosition-1) but that only randomized the question and didn't pull the correct answers along with the questions.
How do I either bundle the answers to the question or is there a better way to get the questions to shuffle in order? I plan on having 50+ questions but only 10 will show each time the test is taken. I don't want the same 10 questions showing each time the user opens the test.
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
setContentView(R.layout.activity_quiz_questions)
mQuestionsList=Constants.getQuestions()
setQuestion()
}
private fun setQuestion(){
val question = mQuestionsList!![mCurrentPosition-1]
defaultOptionsView()
if(mCurrentPosition == mQuestionsList!!.size){
submitBtn.text = "Finish"
}else{
submitBtn.text = "Submit"
}
progressBar.progress = mCurrentPosition
tv_progress.text = "$mCurrentPosition" + "/" + progressBar.max
tv_question.text = question!!.question
test_image.setImageResource(question.image)
tvOptionOne.text = question.optionOne
tvOptionTwo.text = question.optionTwo
tvOptionThree.text = question.optionThree
tvOptionFour.text = question.optionFour
}
private fun defaultOptionsView(){
val options = ArrayList<TextView>()
options.add(0, tvOptionOne)
options.add(1, tvOptionTwo)
options.add(2, tvOptionThree)
options.add(3, tvOptionFour)
Here is my Array
object Constants{
const val TOTAL_QUESTIONS: String = "total_questions"
const val CORRECT_ANSWERS: String = "correct_answers"
fun getQuestions(): ArrayList<Question>{
val questionsList = ArrayList<Question>()
val q1 = Question(
R.drawable.questionmark,
1,
"Who is Regional Manager of\n Dunder Mifflin Scranton?",
"Michael",
"Jim",
"Pam",
"Dwight",
1,
)
I appreciate any help at all. Thank you in advance.
list.shuffled().take(10) And make your mQuestionsList property type List instead of ArrayList since you don’t need to modify it after retrieval. You should also probably make it lateinit or initialize it at its declaration site so you won’t have to make the type nullable and have to resort to !!, which is generally a code smell. So I would declare it as var mQuestionsList: List<Question> = emptyList() and whenever you want new values do mQuestionsList = Constants.getQuestions().shuffled().take(10).
How to get the string "hi" from the CharBuffer? toString() does not seem to work.
val a = CharBuffer.allocate(10);
a.put('h');
a.put('i');
val b = a.toString();
Variable states after running the code above:
CharBuffer is pretty low-level and really meant for I/O stuff, so it may seem illogical at first. In your example it actually returned a string containing remaining 8 bytes that you didn't set. To make it return your data you need to invoke flip() like this:
val a = CharBuffer.allocate(10);
a.put('h');
a.put('i');
a.flip()
val b = a.toString();
You can find more in the docs of the Buffer
For more typical use cases it is much easier to use StringBuilder:
val a = StringBuilder()
a.append('h')
a.append('i')
val b = a.toString()
Or even use a Kotlin util that wraps StringBuilder:
val b = buildString {
append('h')
append('i')
}
I want to send data (number) from "edit text section" of Sub-Activity1 (users input a simple number)and receive in another Sub-activity2, and depending on the number I want to show different sets of text. I am a beginner and I am stuck where in Sub-Activity 2 as it returns error for val str where I want to receive and manipulate the number received from Sub-Activity 1 editText.
Sub-Activity 1 :
<Send & Open Sub-Activity2>
getResult.setOnClickListener {
val intent = Intent(this, subactivity::class.java)
val name: String = editTextID.getText().toString()
intent.putExtra(name:"editTextID",value:"7.0")
startActivity(intent)
This returns no error.
Sub-Activity 2: <Receive & Manipulate the text>
class subactivity2 : AppCompatActivity() {
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
setContentView(R.layout.activity_subactivity2)
val str =intent.getStringExtra("editTextID")
when str == 7.0 {
infoTextView.textview.text= "textIwannaShow"
}
}
Franz might be right about you wanting to pass a Double, but since you're passing it as a String and also naming your val str, I'll assume you do want to pass a string (that just happens to represent a number). In which case you need to compare to a string
if (str == "7.0") {
infoTextView.textview.text = "textIwannaShow"
}
or if you do want a when block
when(str) {
"7.0" -> infoTextView.textview.text = "textIwannaShow"
}
If you actually want to work with numbers you'll have to call toDouble() on your string at some point to convert it to one. toDoubleOrNull would be better if you're taking that number from a text input (in case the user doesn't enter a valid number), but you're not actually using the value taken from the EditText
In your Sub-Activity 2, you are receiving a String not an Integer.
So, you should change your code from this
val str =intent.getStringExtra("editTextID")
To this
val str =intent.getIntExtra("editTextID", 0)
Anyway, in the example you are passing 7.0 which is Double, so you probably need this instead of above code
val str =intent.getDoubleExtra("editTextID", 0.0)
In Kotlin, how to get the raw value of the String?
For example,
val value: String = "Adrian"
Expected result:
"Cannot find value: Adrian"
I am coming from Swift and I know in swift it works like this
let value: String = "Adrian"
print("Cannot find \(string.description): \(value)")
Another example in Swift,
let a: String = "b"
print("\(a.description) = \(a)"
///prints "a = b"
Im guessing a String extension is needed given I read the Kotlin String documentation and seems none of the choices provides the expected result.
A simple problem but I really can't solve it:(
This might help you. For this you have to use Kotlin reflection:
Example:
data class Person(val name:String)
fun main(){
val person = Person("Birju")
val prop = person::name
println("Property Name: ${prop.name}")
println("Property Value: ${prop.get()}")
}
How about
println("value :$value")
You don't need concatination operator(+) to concat strings in kotlin