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Optimizing this inefficient TicTacToe configuration parser
On a programming contest I came upon this question:
Given a partially played 3 × 3 tic-tac-toe configuration, write a program to determine which player will have a better chance of winning if the ...
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Parsing version number from a Java source file
I'm extracting the version number from a file like this one. It works, but I find it clumsy and longer than probably needed.
I'd also appreciate some sanity checks as long as they don't make the code ...
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Stripping out all /* */ comments from a paragraph
I've written this code keeping the following cases in mind and I think I've covered them all. I'd really appreciate if someone could help me determine if I've covered all of them.
Cases I considered:
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How can I speed up my RSS feed Android App?
I have a problem with parsing RSS from a PHP page because the app is too slow.
This is my parsing code:
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Extraction of data from Flickr
I'm crawling Flickr for data for my university research project. However it's very slow and I'm not sure what it is exactly. It could be the FileWriter slowing it ...
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Parsing CSV file with BufferedReader vs Scanner
I have to parse file line by line and in single line I have split by ",".
First String would be Name and Second would be count. Finaly I have to display the Key and Count
For example
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1answer
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Library for parsing strings to java types, generic types and collections/arrays
I've done a library that can parse strings to different java types and to List<...>, Set<...>, ...
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Object Creation during loops
I'm trying to parse a CSV file into objects. I've already got a very efficient CSV parser (SuperCSV). The problem arises when trying to create the object with the data that is being read out.
I've ...
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Math expression solver
Recently I've stumbled upon an interesting challenge for me.
You should develop C application, that solves math expressions. Operations such as (+,-,*,/) should be supported, as well as (cos, sin, ...
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Numeric expression parser - calculator
In particular, if someone could describe a better way to go from the tokenized list to the Expression tree, it would be super helpful. I would like to get rid of the casting in the parser but am not ...
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Read an input text file and store the tokens in 2 different arrays
I am very new to Java so please ignore if there are obvious mistakes. If my question seems redundant then please guide me towards the correct link. However, I have surfed enough in order to find the ...
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Android AsyncTask, HTTP Request and Parsing
I am working on Android applications for last 2 years and about 80% applications I have developed involve web-services consumption followed by some sort of XML or JSON parsing. Initially, when I had ...
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1answer
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HTTP Authorization header parser
I'm writing a parser for HTTP Authorization header (see RFC2616#14.8 and RFC2617#1.2). Note that I explicitly don't care about the base64-encoded syntax used by HTTP Basic authentication. I'm only ...
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Speed up CSV reading code (vector of doubles)
I am trying to read a single-columned CSV of doubles into Java with a string header. It is 11 megabytes and takes over 15 minutes to read, which is clearly ...
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Reading and validating 2D matrix bar code
I need a review on this. This code will read a 2D matrix bar code, which I hard-coded as a string str. It has "]d" starting string, which is a GS1 International ...
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Nesting versus GOTO: which is better to avoid?
In Java they're not really known as GOTO statements and are rather referred to as Branching Statements, but I find that the former term is a bit more indicative of ...
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Digit to words converter
This is one of the longest programs I have made with methods and I think I must be doing this rather inefficiently. Any comments to improve would be appreciated.
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How to efficiently parse the data coming from the URL?
I need to parse the data coming from the URL which looks like below -
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1answer
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A boolean expression parser, written in Java
I was trying to write some of the Haskell list functions into Java, and I realized that one of the key strengths for many of the functions was the ability to pass in a boolean expression. I decided to ...
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Optimize parsing of number for currency conversion
I have written this block its working fine but is it optimized? I am getting currency in format 1.234,25 .
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1answer
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Simplifying HTML parsing
I'm working on an app for my school (not homework, an app that's going to be used by students), that's supposed to display our week schedules. I get the data from a webapp, but it has no API that I ...
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Parse strings and convert the value to .java types
Below is a generic code for parsing strings (read from file for example) and converting them to .java types, such as primitives (and their wrappers), java.io.File, Enum etc. There is also possible to ...
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Hello Java World ~> Parsing a Sudoku Grid
This is my first, very-very first attempt at java. I haven't started tackling the actual resolution of the sudoku puzzle (not even sure where to start, haven't looked at other weekend-challenge ...
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Looping Strategy: Change behaviour after first iteration
I have often encountered the following situation. I want to call a method in a Loop, but want to skip the call at the first run. It do not have to be a method, it also can be some lines of code that I ...
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1answer
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Very basic Context Free Grammar in Java
I wrote this program for an assignment, thus I had some requirements as far as the format of the cfg.txt file and some basic other classes that we had to use. Other than that, I am curious if there is ...
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Listing daemons from Linux [closed]
I have this code that lists daemons from Linux. I use /proc filesystem to get the data that I want to read:
This is the file structure:
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1answer
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Regex parser - request for review and optimization
The whole question is Better implementation of a simplified regular expression engine?.
I have solved the question, and in turn felt the need to get it reviewed. Any suggestions for clean up and ...
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2answers
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Retrieving doubles from string - simple problem
The problem is not very complicated (I mean it is easy to solve it), but the question is how to make it in the easiest way (Java)
Input String:
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DOM parser implemented from scratch
I have implemented a DOM parser. I would like any comments for optimizing, improving, and making the code coherent to best coding practices.
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1answer
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Can I get some tips for improving my tokenizer design?
I need some tips on how to improve the design of the following code. Everything works correctly in the program. It takes a string and shows each token the only tokens being numbers and operators. The ...
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Style Check and Boundary Condition Handling - KMP Pattern Array Generation [closed]
I am trying to implement the pattern encoding array that KMP uses to determine the number of positions the pattern should move in the text to augment the performance of a Naive Pattern search.The code ...
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Using annotations to keep code maintainable
https://github.com/ElgarL/TownyChat/blob/582796e43a0c3b0828c8a5655e8d693bfed94c00/src/com/palmergames/bukkit/TownyChat/TownyChatFormatter.java
From above:
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A better approach to parsing this file name in Java?
I am creating a file uploader, and one function of the uploader will parse the file name to make sure that it is in the correct format.
This is the proper format of the file name: ...
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Locale-related code — are there corner cases I didn't see?
This is a utility class I have in one of my projects and I seek feedback on it. I have read the javadoc for Locale quite a few times while developing this code. I ...
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Better way to get the XML attribute value?
I have an xml file from which I want to extract the value of attribute custName from the very first child. The code below works where I am using the dom parser. Is ...
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How should I read coordinates from a text file?
I have a text file with lines that look like this:
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Custom parser for named parameters in prepared statement
I'm creating a small extension to the JDBC API, with the hope of automating some common tasks and avoid boilerplate code.
One of its features will be a basic support for named parameters in prepared ...
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Can you guys look at my java project and give me some tips?
So I feel like I'm a good coder, but that's from my point of view. Can you take a look at my code and give me some tips or criticize me on my code. Or give me some tips or things to add or make things ...
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3answers
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Parse an XML file using objects / methods
So I spent a while this morning creating an xml parser in java which is part of a job interview. I would love to have some people tear it apart so I can learn from any mistakes that I made so I can ...
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Optimize JSON insertion to SQLite (insert … on duplicate key ignore)
In current task, I'm refactoring the code of converting JSON file into SQLite database on Android device. Code compliant with Java 6.
As a benchmark, grabbing the code from remote server takes ...
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1answer
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Game level parser
The code for the LevelParser is shown below. It is also documented using Java-doc; the docs are in the project directory.
Now by improving this piece of code, I do ...
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1answer
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Parse Java source code
I have a bunch of simple interfaces like this one (pretty enough formed, but not guarantee)
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Code review - parse a query to arrays
I have a query like this "abc=1, def=2, ghi=3" and I need to parse it into arrays like this ...
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Simplify splitting a String into alpha and numeric parts
Requirement: Parse a String into chunks of numeric characters and alpha characters. Alpha characters should be separated from the numeric, other characters should be ignored.
Example Data:
Input ...
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Are there any ways to improve my HTTP request path parser?
I have written a method to tokenize HTTP request paths such as /employee/23/edit.
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