Hi all..
Yes, i think the best option is to use indexOf ... don't try to make harder
a think that is very easy..
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barzilai Spinak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "jdjlist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 10:56 AM
Subject: [jdjlist] Re: String List Compare
> I don't get it... what's wrong with String.indexOf(String) ?
> It's not fast enough for you? Or is there another problem that you
> have not stated? By what you said the problem seems trivial and I
> don't see
> a reason to bother with HashSet's or Tokenizers.... unless I didn't
> understand your
> problem at all and I should smash my computer and transform myself into
> a cowboy.
>
> BarZ
>
> David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>
> >How about:
> >
> >1) use StringTokenizer to break the string into tokens (i.e., 2-letter
state
> >Strings)
> >
> >2) put each token into a HashSet
> >
> >3) query for membership using set.contains("CA");
> >
> >
> >DR
> >
> >
> >On Wednesday 26 March 2003 01:31 pm, Greg Nudelman wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I have a DB field of user-entered 2-letter states, separated by a comma.
> >>
> >>
> >>states = "CA, OR, TX";
> >>
> >>or it could be
> >>
> >>states = " CA,OR,TX, HI ";
> >>
> >>in other words, spacing is inconsistent, but case seems to be OK.
> >>
> >>I need to relaibly and FAST! answer:
> >>
> >>is state = "CA" in states
> >>
> >>Any ideas?
> >>
> >>Greg
> >>
> >>----------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>P.S. this is what we got so far:
> >>
> >>1) run a perl script on DB that will remove the extra spacing
> >>2) add the flanking commas to both:
> >>
> >>state = ",CA,";
> >>states = ",CA,OR,TX,HI,";
> >>
> >>3) states.indexOf(state) != -1
> >>
> >>
>
>
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