I want to create a MutableList of alphabets form A to Z but so far I can only think of the following method as the shortest one without writing each and every alphabet.
fun main()
{
var alphabets: MutableList<Char> = mutableListOf()
for (a in 'A'..'Z')
{
alphabets.add(a)
}
print(alphabets)
}
So I wanted to know if there is any Lambda implementation or shorter method for the same?
You can use CharRange() or using .. operator to create a range.
For example:
val alphabets = ('A'..'Z').toMutableList()
print(alphabets)
// [A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z]
or
val alphabets = CharRange('A','Z').toMutableList()
print(alphabets)
// [A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z]
Alternatively, you can use ('a'..'z').joinToString("").
val abc = ('a'..'z').joinToString("")
println(abc) //abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
You can perform the same functions on a string in Kotlin as you can perform on a list of characters
For example:
for (i in abc) { println(i) }
This lists each alphabet individually on a new line just as it would if you converted it into a list.
You can use rangeTo extension function as below
private val alphabets = ('A').rangeTo('Z').toMutableList()
println(alphabets)
[A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z]
I wanted to create a MutableList of alphabets and then shuffle them and store it in another MutableList.
I used shuffle() function but it resulted in the original list being shuffled as well which I didn't wanted to happen as I will be using the original list to map it with new shuffled one.
fun main(){
val alphabets = ('A'..'Z').toMutableList()
var shuffAlp = alphabets
shuffAlp.shuffle()
println(alphabets)
println(shuffAlp)
}
So I had to create two mutable list and then shuffle one of them
val alphabets = ('A'..'Z').toMutableList()
var shuffAlp = ('A'..'Z').toMutableList()
shuffAlp.shuffle()
This might be a trivial question but is there any other way where I do not have to create two same list?
shuffle does shuffle into original list, shuffled do and return new list.
And same behavior is for sort & sorted, sortBy & sortedBy, reverse & asReversed:
fun main(){
val alphabets = ('A'..'Z').toMutableList()
val shuffAlp = alphabets.shuffled()
println(alphabets)
println(shuffAlp)
}
Result:
[A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z]
[U, B, A, N, H, R, O, K, X, C, W, E, Q, P, J, Z, L, Y, S, M, I, D, V, F, G, T]
I try to understand MD5 algorithm. I found on the wikipedia a pseudocode. This is a fragment:
//Main loop:
for i from 0 to 63
if 0 ≤ i ≤ 15 then
F := (B and C) or ((not B) and D)
g := i
else if 16 ≤ i ≤ 31
F := (D and B) or ((not D) and C)
g := (5×i + 1) mod 16
else if 32 ≤ i ≤ 47
F := B xor C xor D
g := (3×i + 5) mod 16
else if 48 ≤ i ≤ 63
F := C xor (B or (not D))
g := (7×i) mod 16
dTemp := D
D := C
C := B
B := B + leftrotate((A + F + K[i] + M[g]), s[i])
A := dTemp
end for
I almost understand it but I'm wondering what's stored in g variable?
Wikipedia states:
"The processing of a message block consists of four similar stages, termed rounds; each round is composed of 16 similar operations". From the pseudo code it can be seen that each round the parts of the message, denoted by M, are mixed in at a different time of the round.
The function to generate g - an index into the message block - will make sure that each part of the message is mixed in. 5, 3 and 7 are all primes and of course they don't have a common divisor with each other or 16. That means that, together with the initial offsets 1, 5 and 0 they make sure that the distribution is as dissimilar as possible.
The index i goes from 0 to 63, which is 4 x 16 - 1. This makes sure that all the parts of the message are mixed in once, at each of the rounds.
EDIT: I thought that the initial g = i could generate an index out of bounds, but that code is only executed for i in the range 0..15 so the % 16 can indeed be left out.
Below is an "unrolled" (meaning all the loops have been written out) implementation of the inner structure of MD5. Here you can see how g operates on the in array:
/* Basic MD5 step. Transform buf based on in.
*/
static void Transform (buf, in)
UINT4 *buf;
UINT4 *in;
{
UINT4 a = buf[0], b = buf[1], c = buf[2], d = buf[3];
/* Round 1 */
#define S11 7
#define S12 12
#define S13 17
#define S14 22
FF ( a, b, c, d, in[ 0], S11, 3614090360); /* 1 */
FF ( d, a, b, c, in[ 1], S12, 3905402710); /* 2 */
FF ( c, d, a, b, in[ 2], S13, 606105819); /* 3 */
FF ( b, c, d, a, in[ 3], S14, 3250441966); /* 4 */
FF ( a, b, c, d, in[ 4], S11, 4118548399); /* 5 */
FF ( d, a, b, c, in[ 5], S12, 1200080426); /* 6 */
FF ( c, d, a, b, in[ 6], S13, 2821735955); /* 7 */
FF ( b, c, d, a, in[ 7], S14, 4249261313); /* 8 */
FF ( a, b, c, d, in[ 8], S11, 1770035416); /* 9 */
FF ( d, a, b, c, in[ 9], S12, 2336552879); /* 10 */
FF ( c, d, a, b, in[10], S13, 4294925233); /* 11 */
FF ( b, c, d, a, in[11], S14, 2304563134); /* 12 */
FF ( a, b, c, d, in[12], S11, 1804603682); /* 13 */
FF ( d, a, b, c, in[13], S12, 4254626195); /* 14 */
FF ( c, d, a, b, in[14], S13, 2792965006); /* 15 */
FF ( b, c, d, a, in[15], S14, 1236535329); /* 16 */
/* Round 2 */
#define S21 5
#define S22 9
#define S23 14
#define S24 20
GG ( a, b, c, d, in[ 1], S21, 4129170786); /* 17 */
GG ( d, a, b, c, in[ 6], S22, 3225465664); /* 18 */
GG ( c, d, a, b, in[11], S23, 643717713); /* 19 */
GG ( b, c, d, a, in[ 0], S24, 3921069994); /* 20 */
GG ( a, b, c, d, in[ 5], S21, 3593408605); /* 21 */
GG ( d, a, b, c, in[10], S22, 38016083); /* 22 */
GG ( c, d, a, b, in[15], S23, 3634488961); /* 23 */
GG ( b, c, d, a, in[ 4], S24, 3889429448); /* 24 */
GG ( a, b, c, d, in[ 9], S21, 568446438); /* 25 */
GG ( d, a, b, c, in[14], S22, 3275163606); /* 26 */
GG ( c, d, a, b, in[ 3], S23, 4107603335); /* 27 */
GG ( b, c, d, a, in[ 8], S24, 1163531501); /* 28 */
GG ( a, b, c, d, in[13], S21, 2850285829); /* 29 */
GG ( d, a, b, c, in[ 2], S22, 4243563512); /* 30 */
GG ( c, d, a, b, in[ 7], S23, 1735328473); /* 31 */
GG ( b, c, d, a, in[12], S24, 2368359562); /* 32 */
/* Round 3 */
#define S31 4
#define S32 11
#define S33 16
#define S34 23
HH ( a, b, c, d, in[ 5], S31, 4294588738); /* 33 */
HH ( d, a, b, c, in[ 8], S32, 2272392833); /* 34 */
HH ( c, d, a, b, in[11], S33, 1839030562); /* 35 */
HH ( b, c, d, a, in[14], S34, 4259657740); /* 36 */
HH ( a, b, c, d, in[ 1], S31, 2763975236); /* 37 */
HH ( d, a, b, c, in[ 4], S32, 1272893353); /* 38 */
HH ( c, d, a, b, in[ 7], S33, 4139469664); /* 39 */
HH ( b, c, d, a, in[10], S34, 3200236656); /* 40 */
HH ( a, b, c, d, in[13], S31, 681279174); /* 41 */
HH ( d, a, b, c, in[ 0], S32, 3936430074); /* 42 */
HH ( c, d, a, b, in[ 3], S33, 3572445317); /* 43 */
HH ( b, c, d, a, in[ 6], S34, 76029189); /* 44 */
HH ( a, b, c, d, in[ 9], S31, 3654602809); /* 45 */
HH ( d, a, b, c, in[12], S32, 3873151461); /* 46 */
HH ( c, d, a, b, in[15], S33, 530742520); /* 47 */
HH ( b, c, d, a, in[ 2], S34, 3299628645); /* 48 */
/* Round 4 */
#define S41 6
#define S42 10
#define S43 15
#define S44 21
II ( a, b, c, d, in[ 0], S41, 4096336452); /* 49 */
II ( d, a, b, c, in[ 7], S42, 1126891415); /* 50 */
II ( c, d, a, b, in[14], S43, 2878612391); /* 51 */
II ( b, c, d, a, in[ 5], S44, 4237533241); /* 52 */
II ( a, b, c, d, in[12], S41, 1700485571); /* 53 */
II ( d, a, b, c, in[ 3], S42, 2399980690); /* 54 */
II ( c, d, a, b, in[10], S43, 4293915773); /* 55 */
II ( b, c, d, a, in[ 1], S44, 2240044497); /* 56 */
II ( a, b, c, d, in[ 8], S41, 1873313359); /* 57 */
II ( d, a, b, c, in[15], S42, 4264355552); /* 58 */
II ( c, d, a, b, in[ 6], S43, 2734768916); /* 59 */
II ( b, c, d, a, in[13], S44, 1309151649); /* 60 */
II ( a, b, c, d, in[ 4], S41, 4149444226); /* 61 */
II ( d, a, b, c, in[11], S42, 3174756917); /* 62 */
II ( c, d, a, b, in[ 2], S43, 718787259); /* 63 */
II ( b, c, d, a, in[ 9], S44, 3951481745); /* 64 */
buf[0] += a;
buf[1] += b;
buf[2] += c;
buf[3] += d;
}