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Differentiating String/Int User Input [closed]

I am having issues trying to type code that will make my program distinguish whether the user inputs a string value or an int value. If an int value is typed in, it will be stored into an array (named ...
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Using for loop to get the Hamming distance between 2 strings [closed]

So i'm having some trouble with this code. i need to get the Hamming distance (the Hamming distance between two strings of equal length is the number of positions at which the corresponding symbols ...
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High School Java Class: Pong Project External Reviewer

Panelball class: import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.KeyEvent; import javax.swing.*; public class Panelball extends JPanel implements Runnable { private static final long ...
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Java - Is this the correct implementation of a timer/timertask to destroy a process that overruns a defined time limit

I was wondering if this is the correct implementation of a times task to destroy a thread after it overruns a predefined time period: it works by creating a getting the thread from ...
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JAVA, Twitter4j insert tags around entities in body

Because we're passing object to Spring Framework in which Jackson classes convert them into JSON as a reposnse we chose to Implement more simple Tweet class rather than the twitter4j provided Status ...
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String Building

Before, I had this code, sometimes it is longer: String dbEntry = "idBldgInfo = '" + currentBldgID + "',scenario = '305',installCost='" + installCost + "',annualSave='" + annualSave + ...
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Code review for recursion to map phone number to strings

I am trying to solve the following via recursion: In a phone we have each digit mapped to a number. Example: 1 2(ABC) 3(DEF) 4(GHI) 5(JKL) 6(MNO) 7(PRS) 8(TUV) 9(XYZ) * 0 ...
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efficient looping procedure to find the longest common substring java

I retrieved 200 tweets using jersey API. I want to find two tweets which have the longest common substring. This is what I have got. tweetList is an ArrayList of Tweet Objects. comapreTweets method ...
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String.compareTo method to compare [closed]

I'm pretty new to java and don't really know about these stuff and it's my first time writing these methods! of course I have no clue how I can write them. will you check my Method and let me know ...
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Reading a line from a text file and splitting its contents

I have this kind of file structure MALE:FooBar:32 FEMALE:BarFoo:23 Where I would want to identify the gender and age of person, <Gender>:<Name>:<age> try{ BufferedReader in = ...
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How to re-factor a common String comparison

Code below is scattered all over the code base : if (StringUtils.contains(manager.getName, "custom")){ } It just checks if an object attribute contains a predefined String and if it does, enter ...
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Approximate String Matching Interview Question

I was working on the challenge Save Humanity from Interviewstreet for a while then gave up, solved a few other challenges, and have come back to it again. The code below generates the correct ...
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Java Date formatter

The (real life) problem Following my question on SO, I found out that printing a Java Date() in a custom format is quite tedious: final Date date = new Date(); final String ISO_FORMAT = ...
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Pattern Matching with Mismatch

I have been using a slightly modified Hamming Distance algorithm for approximate String Matching for patterns and wondering if there is something better out there. The t being the length of the text ...
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Is this String concatenation creating extra String?

Using the eclipse formatting on a class with some @NamedQueries created concatenations. While I have been doing this for years without paying attention I just realised that may be it is not a good ...

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