Iterating a string through each character

Tuesday, April 29, 2014 perl , perl script 0 Comments

In general if there is a need for us to iterate though a string character by character, then we normally split the string using a statement like:

@chars=split("",$var);

Now after the array is created we iterate through that array.But an easy way of doing this in Perl without creating an array is :

while ($var =~ /(.)/sg) {
   my $char = $1;
   print $char."\n"
}

Below is the explanation for the same:

$var =~ /(.)/sg

Match any character though out the string and round braces "()" captures the matched character.
/s 
Treat string as single line. That is, change "." to match any character whatsoever, even a newline, which normally it would not match.
/g
Match all occurrences of the regexp throughout the line instead of only the first occurrence.

Butterfly in Perl command line "}{"

Saturday, April 26, 2014 perl 0 Comments

I recently came to know about this and I thought its worth sharing. I will try to keep it very simple.
Lets say I have a file as below:

1
2
3
4
5

I need to join all the lines with a pipe so that my output should look like below:

1|2|3|4|5

Normally I use the below command to achieve the same:

perl -lne 'push @a,$_;END{print join "|",@a}' File

Now, here's another option for you below:

perl -lne 'push @a,$_;}{ print join "|",@a' File

The change here is:
}{
This is called butterfly option in perl. Basically it closes while loop imposed by -n switch, and what follows }{ is block executed after while loop.

Restrict a java text field length

Sunday, April 13, 2014 java 0 Comments

There are many different way to do this. You might write your own once you figure out what has to be done exactly. But I came up with this. Additionally I wanted the input to be numeric as well. So below is what I came up with.

private class NumericAndLengthFilter extends DocumentFilter {

        /**
         * Number of characters allowed.
         */
        private int length = 0;

        /**
         * Restricts the number of charcacters can be entered by given length.
         * @param length Number of characters allowed.
         */
        public NumericAndLengthFilter(int length) {
            this.length = length;
        }

        @Override
        public void insertString(FilterBypass fb, int offset, String string,
                AttributeSet attr) throws
                BadLocationException {
            if (isNumeric(string)) {
                if (this.length > 0 && fb.getDocument().getLength() + string.
                        length()
                        > this.length) {
                    return;
                }
                super.insertString(fb, offset, string, attr);
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void replace(FilterBypass fb, int offset, int length, String text,
                AttributeSet attrs) throws
                BadLocationException {
            if (isNumeric(text)) {
                if (this.length > 0 && fb.getDocument().getLength() + text.
                        length()
                        > this.length) {
                    return;
                }
                super.insertString(fb, offset, text, attrs);
            }
        }

        /**
         * This method tests whether given text can be represented as number.
         * This method can be enhanced further for specific needs.
         * @param text Input text.
         * @return {@code true} if given string can be converted to number; otherwise returns {@code false}.
         */
        private boolean isNumeric(String text) {
            if (text == null || text.trim().equals("")) {
                return false;
            }
            for (int iCount = 0; iCount < text.length(); iCount++) {
                if (!Character.isDigit(text.charAt(iCount))) {
                    return false;
                }
            }
            return true;
        }
    }
}

Restricting a Java Text field to just a range of integers

Friday, April 11, 2014 java 0 Comments

This time I came across a slightly different way than extending the documentfilter. That is I will write my own plain document here.

class IntegerRangeDocument extends PlainDocument {

  int minimum, maximum;

  int currentValue = 0;

  public IntegerRangeDocument(int minimum, int maximum) {
    this.minimum = minimum;
    this.maximum = maximum;
  }

  public int getValue() {
    return currentValue;
  }

  public void insertString(int offset, String string, AttributeSet attributes)
      throws BadLocationException {

    if (string == null) {
      return;
    } else {
      String newValue;
      int length = getLength();
      if (length == 0) {
        newValue = string;
      } else {
        String currentContent = getText(0, length);
        StringBuffer currentBuffer = new StringBuffer(currentContent);
        currentBuffer.insert(offset, string);
        newValue = currentBuffer.toString();
      }
      try {
        currentValue = checkInput(newValue);
        super.insertString(offset, string, attributes);
      } catch (Exception exception) {
        Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();
      }
    }
  }

  public void remove(int offset, int length) throws BadLocationException {
    int currentLength = getLength();
    String currentContent = getText(0, currentLength);
    String before = currentContent.substring(0, offset);
    String after = currentContent.substring(length + offset, currentLength);
    String newValue = before + after;
    try {
      currentValue = checkInput(newValue);
      super.remove(offset, length);
    } catch (Exception exception) {
      Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();
    }
  }

  public int checkInput(String proposedValue) throws NumberFormatException {
    int newValue = 0;
    if (proposedValue.length() > 0) {
      newValue = Integer.parseInt(proposedValue);
    }
    if ((minimum <= newValue) && (newValue <= maximum)) {
      return newValue;
    } else {
      throw new NumberFormatException();
    }
  }
}

Now you can attach your text field with this plain document as below to achieve our requirement.

Document rangeOne = new IntegerRangeDocument(0, 255);
JTextField textFieldOne = new JTextField();
textFieldOne.setDocument(rangeOne);
    

Restricting a Java Text field to alphabet

Thursday, April 10, 2014 java 0 Comments

This is slightly opposite to what we have seen  in one of the previous posts
Please use the below DocumentFilter for the same.

class MyDocFilter extends DocumentFilter {
   private static final String REMOVE_REGEX = "\\d";
   private boolean filter = true;

   public boolean isFilter() {
      return filter;
   }

   public void setFilter(boolean filter) {
      this.filter = filter;
   }

   @Override
   public void insertString(FilterBypass fb, int offset, String text,
         AttributeSet attr) throws BadLocationException {
      if (filter) {
         text = text.replaceAll(REMOVE_REGEX, "");
      }
      super.insertString(fb, offset, text, attr);

   }

   @Override
   public void replace(FilterBypass fb, int offset, int length, String text,
         AttributeSet attrs) throws BadLocationException {
      if (filter) {
         text = text.replaceAll(REMOVE_REGEX, "");
      }
      super.replace(fb, offset, length, text, attrs);

   }
}

Restricting a Java Text field to Integers

Thursday, April 10, 2014 java 0 Comments

I have read a lot for this and the best way I found to do this is by extending the DocumentFilter class and using this new DocumentFilter

class MyIntFilter extends DocumentFilter {
   @Override
   public void insertString(FilterBypass fb, int offset, String string,
         AttributeSet attr) throws BadLocationException {

      Document doc = fb.getDocument();
      StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
      sb.append(doc.getText(0, doc.getLength()));
      sb.insert(offset, string);

      if (test(sb.toString())) {
         super.insertString(fb, offset, string, attr);
      } else {
         // warn the user and don't allow the insert
      }
   }

   private boolean test(String text) {
      try {
         Integer.parseInt(text);
         return true;
      } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
         return false;
      }
   }

   @Override
   public void replace(FilterBypass fb, int offset, int length, String text,
         AttributeSet attrs) throws BadLocationException {

      Document doc = fb.getDocument();
      StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
      sb.append(doc.getText(0, doc.getLength()));
      sb.replace(offset, offset + length, text);

      if (test(sb.toString())) {
         super.replace(fb, offset, length, text, attrs);
      } else {
         // warn the user and don't allow the insert
      }

   }

   @Override
   public void remove(FilterBypass fb, int offset, int length)
         throws BadLocationException {
      Document doc = fb.getDocument();
      StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
      sb.append(doc.getText(0, doc.getLength()));
      sb.delete(offset, offset + length);

      if (test(sb.toString())) {
         super.remove(fb, offset, length);
      } else {
         // warn the user and don't allow the insert
      }

   }
}

Now after this use this filter with your JtextField like below:

PlainDocument doc = (PlainDocument) textField.getDocument();
doc.setDocumentFilter(new MyIntFilter());

A new addition to this blog - Java

Thursday, April 10, 2014 java 0 Comments

I recently started working on Java and so from now on I would like to share all the interesting things that I have come across about this beautiful programming language. So I am starting a new tag by name JAVA in this blog which will direct all the posts related to java. Happy coding to myself and all.