Question

Instruction

This task is about using the Java Collections Framework to accomplish some basic textprocessing tasks. These questions involve choosing the right abstraction (Collection, Set, List, Queue, Deque, SortedSet, Map, or SortedMap) to efficiently accomplish the task at hand. The best way to do these is to read the question and then think about what type of Collection is best to use to solve it. There are only a few lines of code you need to write to solve each of them. Unless specified otherwise, sorted order refers to the natural sorted order on Strings, as defined by String.compareTo(s). Part 0 in the assignment is an example specification and solution.

Part0

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Set;

public class Part0 {
  
   /**
   * Read lines one at a time from r. After reading all lines, output
   * all lines to w, outputting duplicate lines only once. Note: the order
   * of the output is unspecified and may have nothing to do with the order
   * that lines appear in r.
   * @param r the reader to read from
   * @param w the writer to write to
   * @throws IOException
   */
   public static void doIt(BufferedReader r, PrintWriter w) throws IOException {
Set<String> s = new HashSet<>();

for (String line = r.readLine(); line != null; line = r.readLine()) {
s.add(line);
}

for (String text : s) {
w.println(text);
}
   }

   /**
   * The driver. Open a BufferedReader and a PrintWriter, either from System.in
   * and System.out or from filenames specified on the command line, then call doIt.
   * @param args
   */
   public static void main(String[] args) {
       try {
           BufferedReader r;
           PrintWriter w;
           if (args.length == 0) {
               r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
               w = new PrintWriter(System.out);
           } else if (args.length == 1) {
               r = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(args[0]));
               w = new PrintWriter(System.out);              
           } else {
               r = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(args[0]));
               w = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(args[1]));
           }
           long start = System.nanoTime();
           doIt(r, w);
           w.flush();
           long stop = System.nanoTime();
           System.out.println("Execution time: " + 10e-9 * (stop-start));
       } catch (IOException e) {
           System.err.println(e);
           System.exit(-1);
       }
   }
}

Question 6

[5 marks] Read the input one line at a time and output the current line if and only if it is not a suffix of some previous line. For example, if the some line is "0xdeadbeef" and some subsequent line is "beef", then the subsequent line should not be output.

Template code

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;

public class Part6 {
  
   /**
   * Your code goes here - see Part0 for an example
   * @param r the reader to read from
   * @param w the writer to write to
   * @throws IOException
   */
   public static void doIt(BufferedReader r, PrintWriter w) throws IOException {
       // Your code goes here - see Part0 for an example
   }

   /**
   * The driver. Open a BufferedReader and a PrintWriter, either from System.in
   * and System.out or from filenames specified on the command line, then call doIt.
   * @param args
   */
   public static void main(String[] args) {
       try {
           BufferedReader r;
           PrintWriter w;
           if (args.length == 0) {
               r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
               w = new PrintWriter(System.out);
           } else if (args.length == 1) {
               r = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(args[0]));
               w = new PrintWriter(System.out);              
           } else {
               r = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(args[0]));
               w = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(args[1]));
           }
           long start = System.nanoTime();
           doIt(r, w);
           w.flush();
           long stop = System.nanoTime();
           System.out.println("Execution time: " + 10e-9 * (stop-start));
       } catch (IOException e) {
           System.err.println(e);
           System.exit(-1);
       }
   }
}

Answer 1

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.*;

public class Part6 {

    /**
     * Your code goes here - see Part0 for an example
     *
     * @param r the reader to read from
     * @param w the writer to write to
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static void doIt(BufferedReader r, PrintWriter w) throws IOException {
        List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
        String line;
        boolean found;
        while ((line = r.readLine()) != null) {
            found = false;
            for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) {
                if (list.get(i).endsWith(line)) {
                    found = true;
                }
            }
            if (!found) {
                w.println(line);
            }
            list.add(line);
        }
    }

    /**
     * The driver. Open a BufferedReader and a PrintWriter, either from System.in
     * and System.out or from filenames specified on the command line, then call doIt.
     *
     * @param args
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            BufferedReader r;
            PrintWriter w;
            if (args.length == 0) {
                r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
                w = new PrintWriter(System.out);
            } else if (args.length == 1) {
                r = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(args[0]));
                w = new PrintWriter(System.out);
            } else {
                r = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(args[0]));
                w = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(args[1]));
            }
            long start = System.nanoTime();
            doIt(r, w);
            w.flush();
            long stop = System.nanoTime();
            System.out.println("Execution time: " + 10e-9 * (stop - start));
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println(e);
            System.exit(-1);
        }
    }
}