From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Re: Can I convert a string of letters into an array?
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:39:52 +0100
Date: 2012-03-07T11:39:52+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878vjcheyv.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: zLednfMxUtyBtsvSnZ2dnUVZ_oSdnZ2d@earthlink.com
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> That's all? Given the specifications you don't even need to
> "rearrange" the contents. All you need is the total length, and a pass
> over the string to count how many "B"s appear in it. That gives you
> the information of how many "G"s are in it (since the spec says you
> don't have to worry about any other characters). Given m-B, n-G, a
> moderately simple loop can be used to emit alternating BG pairs until
> the shorter one has expired, then just emit enough of the remaining
> letter to fill out the required length.
Why not just use Ada.Strings.Fixed.Count and Ada.Strings.Fixed."*".
Jacob
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2012-03-06 1:46 Can I convert a string of letters into an array? Will
2012-03-06 2:22 ` Shark8
2012-03-06 2:58 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-03-06 3:10 ` Will
2012-03-06 4:51 ` John B. Matthews
2012-03-06 5:00 ` John B. Matthews
2012-03-06 6:29 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-03-06 7:51 ` anon
2012-03-08 9:48 ` tonyg
2012-03-08 11:30 ` Simon Wright
2012-03-08 13:06 ` mockturtle
2012-03-08 14:04 ` Simon Wright
2012-03-06 3:13 ` Will
2012-03-06 8:29 ` Ludovic Brenta
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2012-03-07 10:39 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
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