Blueprism unable to match two data items that are the same - blueprism

I have an object which is trying to determine if a value it reads from on screen is the same as that passed to the object. This is a validation step and it doesn't appear to recognize them when they are the same. I have also tried trimming and lowering both values. I have also tried Test Regex Match.
Is there any way that I can get the object to recognize that they are the same, or is there a way for me to find out why they are not matching?

A strange thing. If direct comparison failed, even after trimming and with regex failed, there is probably something wrong with some of the characters. I would probably guess the spaces. Have you experienced this behaviour even on values without spaces?
Anyway, I would probably build a C# code stage like this, that accepts txt (string) and outputs col (collection):
col = new DataTable();
col.Columns.Add("Pos", typeof(decimal));
col.Columns.Add("Char", typeof(string));
col.Columns.Add("CharNum", typeof(decimal));
char[] arr = txt.ToCharArray();
for (int i = 0; i < arr.Length; i++)
{
DataRow row = col.NewRow();
row["Pos"] = i;
row["Char"] = arr[i];
row["CharNum"] = (int)arr[i];
col.Rows.Add(row);
}
The result would be like this:
Try to run the code stage on both of your values and see if there is a visible discrepancy.

The solution was to use a Remove Non Word Characters Action in Utility Strings.

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How do I find unique characters in users input?

This algorithm creates a string by taking each unique character in the message in the order they first appear and putting that letter and the number of times it appears in the original message into the shortened string. Your algorithm should ignore any spaces in the message, and any characters which it has already put into the shortened string. For example, the string "I will arrive in Mississippi really soon" becomes "8i1w4l2a3r1v2e2n1m5s2p1y2o".
Here's my code for determining how many unique characters there are. I'm having trouble creating the nested loop to scan the whole string. Help pls!!
boolean used = false;
for (int j = 0; j<i; j++){
if (input.substring(j,j+1).equals(ltr)){
used = true;
}
}
if (!used){
num++;
int count = 0;
for(int k=i; k<input.length(); k++){
if(input.substring(k,k+1).equals(ltr))
count++;
}
}
I am not sure about that. Maybe your nested loop is not right.
Do you use nested loop?
your code is like this: for(){} for(){}
not for(){ for(){ }}
your program just scan the current character and the next character in position ! to find it is unique or not that's the problem
here your problem exactly
if (input.substring(j,j+1).equals(ltr)){

Finding consecutive characters in an array

I have a boolean function that evaluates a 1d array of characters. It has two parameters: a 1d array of characters , and a char c. I want the function to return true if the given char c appears at least four consecutive times within the given array, otherwise it will return false.
I don't know how to start or complete this function at all. Please help! Thanks.
I hope I'm not doing you're homework for you ;). So here's the sudo-code for this problem to help you get started
The first thing you would want is the method header that returns a boolean, and has a parameter for an array of characters and a char
The next step would be to create a counter and run a loop to sift threw every character in the array. Every time you encounter that specific character in the array you would add one to the counter, if the next character isn't the one you want then you would reset the counter to 0. Then add a conditional in the loop to check if the counter reaches 4, if so you would return true. If it never reaches 4 then you would want to return false. Go ahead and try to code that up and see if you get it.
Simple problem. If this is your homework then you shouldn't be doing this. Your question needs to be changed. Firstly give it a try before asking and then once you are done trying you can post the errors or the snippets of codes that you are unsure of and then ask for help. Else you are not going to learn anything. Got a simple solution to your problems. I'm not going to give you the complete solution but instead a guide to help you with your question.
In my opinion string is always a better choice to use instead of char because of the functions that come with that package. Char is just plain old annoying (again in my opinion) unless your question or whatever you are doing this program for requires you to use char.
First,
Create your main program -> create your array and initialize it if you want or you can prompt the user for their input. whichever works.
use the "bool" data type to create your Boolean variable.
Prompt the user to input the char value to check for.
Now call the function and provide the parameters. I'm guessing the function is where you are stuck with so i'm going to provide you the snippets from the code that i wrote for this question.
bool check(char* <array_name>, char* <array_name>) //for the array list and the
//value to check for
{
int size;
size = strlen(<array_name>); //to get the size of the array (array list)
int counter=0; //to keep count of the occurrence of the char to check
for(int x=0; x<size; x++) //ar = array list and token = char to check
{
if(ar[x]==token[0]) //check for each iteration if token is in ar[x]
counter++; //if it is then counter increases by 1
else
counter = 0; //To reset the value to 0 if its not consecutive.
if(counter == 4) //to stop the loop when 4 consecutive values has been found.
break;
}
if(counter >= 4) //as per your requirement 4 or above
return true;
else
return false;
}
EDIT: This is to check the values just until 4 consecutive values of what you are searching for is found and to end the loop. If you want it in a different way then please feel free to comment on this answer. You can always add another counter or anything at all to check how many consecutive times the value is found. For example 1,1,1,1,2,3,4,1,1,1,1,2,3,4,1,1,1,1,2,3,4.
The counter for that will be 3 since it happens 3 times with each time repeating the same value for 4 times consecutively.
If this is your homework then you better study properly because it's a really simple problem and your shouldn't be asking for a solution but instead ask for guidance and try first.
Good luck! If you need further clarification or help just comment on this.

Can we skip indexes when we search a string in another string?

Considering a search in a string for an exact match of another string. Is it safe to continue the search at the position where a partial match stopped to match, without getting wrong results?
In code:
int indexOf(string target, string search){
for(int i=0; i + search.length < target.length; i++){
int f=0;
for(; f < search.length && search[f] == target[i + f]; f++); //empty loop
if(f == search.length) return i;
i += f; //is it safe to do this without to worry about a missing match?
}
}
The thing to worry about is to miss an exact match starting in the partial match (somewhere between i and i + f in the code above). But in fact I couldn't think up any example case to proof the worry. Can you?
There are various string search algorithms here.
I think this is what you want which is know as KMP.
Yes, you need to worry about it, and an example of why you need to worry about it would be searching for the substring "ananas" in the string "anananas".

In unityscript, get the distinct words in a set of Strings in an array

So I have an array that looks like this:
var questans = new String[10, 2];
questans[0,0]="Hey How's it going?";
questans[0,1]="You know me Just chillin'";
questans[1,0]="Hello there friend";
questans[1,1]="Well met to you too!";
questans[2,0]="I like chocolate pudding";
questans[2,1]="Good for you";
I need to essentially extract all the words from it. I tried writing a for loop, but it kept giving me some weird errors.
I've currently got code down to finding the total number of distinct words:
var ff: String[questans.Length]; //Returned string array
var linenumber = 0; //Current line, 0-index
var spacecount = 0; //Current space in current line, 0-index
for (var line in questans) {
for (var spaceSplit in line.Split(" ")) {
ff[linenumber, spacecount] = spaceSplit[spacecount];
spacecount++;
}
spacecount = 0;
linenumber++;
}
But I'm having problem with obtaining all the words out of the array given above. Please help me out with this problem.
Other than what #eclanrs has pointed out, here is what is wrong:
JS does not support the [x,y] syntax for multidimensional array access. You have to use nested arrays. arr[x,y] just becomes equivalent to arr[y]
for (var line in questans) { is not the correct way to iterate over arrays, since you will get all the properties inherited from the prototype as well
JS is case sensitive, and most properties are camel-cased. questans.Length needs to be questans.length, and line.Split needs to be line.split
I suggest you read some JS tutorials to get started, otherwise you'll find yourself lost.

Looping in a String to find Unicode characters is taking too much time

I am creating a custom field where I want to replace some unicode caracters by pictures. Its like doing emoticons for blackberry device. Well I have a problem looping the caracters in the edit field and replacing the unicode caracters by images. When the text becomes too long, the loop takes too much time.
My code is as follows:
String aabb = "";
char[] chara = this.getText().toCharArray();
for (int i = loc; i < chara.length; i ++) {
Character cc = new Character(chara[i]);
aabb += cc.toString();
if (unicodeCaracter) {
//Get the location
//draw the image in the appropriate X and Y
}
}
Well this works fine, and the images are getting in the right place. But the problem is when the text becomes large, the looping is taking too much time, and the input of the text on the device becomes non friendly.
How to find the unicode caracters in a text without having to loop each time for them? Is their another way than this that I missed?
I need help with this issue. Thanks in advance
Well you're creating a new Character and a new String in each iteration of the loop, and converting the string to a character array to start with. You're also using string concatenation in a loop rather than using a StringBuffer. All of these will be hurting performance.
It's not obvious what you mean by "Unicode characters" here - all characters in Java are Unicode characters. I suspect you really want something like:
String text = this.getText();
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer(text.length());
for (int i = 0; i < text.length(); i++) {
char c = text.charAt(i);
buffer.append(c);
if (c > 127) { // Or whatever
// Take some action
}
}
I'm assuming the "take some action" will be changing the buffer in some respect, otherwise the buffer is pointless of course... but fundamentally that's likely to be the sort of change you want.
The string concatenation in a loop is a particularly bad idea - see my article on it for more details.
What takes time is the string concatenation.
Strings are immutable in Java. Each time you do
aabb += cc.toString();
you create a new String object containing all the chars of the previous one, which must be garbage collected, plus the new ones. Use a StringBuilder to build your string:
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(this.getText().length() + 100); // size estimation
char[] chara = this.getText().toCharArray();
for (int i = loc; i < chara.length; i++) {
builder.append(chara[i]);
if (unicodeCaracter) {
//Get the location
//draw the image in the appropriate X and Y
}
}
String aabb = builder.toString();
Well, besides speeding up your loop, you could also try and minimize the work load.
If the user is appending text you could store the last position you scanned previously time and start from there..
On inserts/deletes you'd need to get the caret position and scan the deleted/inserted part and maybe surrounding characters (if you have character groups instead of single characters that get replaced).
However, fixing loop performance is likely to give you a better improvement in your case, as I doubt you'll have that long strings to make that algorithmic change worthwhile.
The most important performance enhancements have already been stated but looping backwards will also help in BlackBerry apps.
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