Arduino String.indexOf() not working - string

Been at this for hours and hours. The indexOf() function never returns > -1 even when I am seeing the characters print in the serial monitor, and the length of the string is increasing as characters come in.
String command;
void loop() {
while ( bleuart.available() ) {
char ch;
ch = bleuart.read();
command += ch;
Serial.print(ch);
}
Serial.println(command.length());
if(command.indexOf("\n") > -1 ) {
Serial.println("command:");
Serial.println(command);
}
}

#darc is right, but there really shouldn't be a actual \n in the string if it comes from a ble module, which i assume. This should be a new line character (DEC 10) which \n should be the same as.
I see 3 deferent problems in your code.
Your command variable is never cleared, so it will just grow until
you run out of memory. When you are done with the command, call
command = "";
When you constructing your command string use command.concat(ch);instead of command += ch;
You should change if(command.indexOf("\n") > -1 ) to if(command.indexOf("\n") != -1 )
See if that helps.

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Arduino does not return the desired output via serial port

I would like to send a list of elements inside a structure via serial port but the output produced by Arduino is abnormal.
A little help? What is the reason for this abnormal output?
const int menu_max_item = 20;
int menu_num_item = 0;
typedef struct item_menu{
String text;
void (*func)(void);
} t_item_menu;
t_item_menu arr_menu[menu_max_item];
void menu_add_item(String txt, void (*f)(void)){
arr_menu[menu_num_item].text = txt;
arr_menu[menu_num_item].func = f;
menu_num_item++;
}
void fn_nd_function(){
Serial.println('test');
}
void print_menu_lcd(){
for(int x = 0; x < 4 && x < menu_num_item; x++){
lcd.setCursor(0,x);
lcd.print(arr_menu[x].text);
}
}
void setup(){
Serial.begin(9600);
for(int i = 0; i < 2; i++) menu_add_item("item " + i, fn_nd_function);
}
void loop() {
print_menu_lcd();
delay(1000);
}
Real output
item
tem
em
Desired output
item 1
item 2
item 3
You have a couple of errors...
This code:
void fn_nd_function(){
Serial.println('test');
}
test is NOT a single character is it? So why do you have it in single quotes?
But more importantly this which is the cause of your bad output:
menu_add_item("item " + i, fn_nd_function);
"item" + i is NOT how you concatenate a number to the end of the character string "item". This is C++ not Java or Python. You'll have to build that string separately. Please don't be tempted to use the String class as that can cause other issues.
What is happening now is that you are passing "item" which is a pointer to the character array stored somewhere in memory holding the characters 'i', 't', 'e' and 'm'. When you add 1 to that pointer you end up with a pointer pointing to the 't' and when you add 2 you end up with a pointer pointing to the 'e'. So when you print from those pointers you only get the part after what that pointer points to.
You need to have a line ahead of that to build the string first. Something along the lines of:
char str[7] = "item "; // Note the two spaces to leave room for the digit
str[5] = i + '0'; // Add '0' to convert single digit to ascii
menu_add_item(str, fn_nd_function);

Counter for two binary strings C++

I am trying to count two binary numbers from string. The maximum number of counting digits have to be 253. Short numbers works, but when I add there some longer numbers, the output is wrong. The example of bad result is "10100101010000111111" with "000011010110000101100010010011101010001101011100000000111000000000001000100101101111101000111001000101011010010111000110".
#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
using namespace std;
bool isBinary(string b1,string b2);
int main()
{
string b1,b2;
long binary1,binary2;
int i = 0, remainder = 0, sum[254];
cout<<"Get two binary numbers:"<<endl;
cin>>b1>>b2;
binary1=atol(b1.c_str());
binary2=atol(b2.c_str());
if(isBinary(b1,b2)==true){
while (binary1 != 0 || binary2 != 0){
sum[i++] =(binary1 % 10 + binary2 % 10 + remainder) % 2;
remainder =(binary1 % 10 + binary2 % 10 + remainder) / 2;
binary1 = binary1 / 10;
binary2 = binary2 / 10;
}
if (remainder != 0){
sum[i++] = remainder;
}
--i;
cout<<"Result: ";
while (i >= 0){
cout<<sum[i--];
}
cout<<endl;
}else cout<<"Wrong input"<<endl;
return 0;
}
bool isBinary(string b1,string b2){
bool rozhodnuti1,rozhodnuti2;
for (int i = 0; i < b1.length();i++) {
if (b1[i]!='0' && b1[i]!='1') {
rozhodnuti1=false;
break;
}else rozhodnuti1=true;
}
for (int k = 0; k < b2.length();k++) {
if (b2[k]!='0' && b2[k]!='1') {
rozhodnuti2=false;
break;
}else rozhodnuti2=true;
}
if(rozhodnuti1==false || rozhodnuti2==false){ return false;}
else{ return true;}
}
One of the problems might be here: sum[i++]
This expression, as it is, first returns the value of i and then increases it by one.
Did you do it on purporse?
Change it to ++i.
It'd help if you could also post the "bad" output, so that we can try to move backward through the code starting from it.
EDIT 2015-11-7_17:10
Just to be sure everything was correct, I've added a cout to check what binary1 and binary2 contain after you assing them the result of the atol function: they contain the integer numbers 547284487 and 18333230, which obviously dont represent the correct binary-to-integer transposition of the two 01 strings you presented in your post.
Probably they somehow exceed the capacity of atol.
Also, the result of your "math" operations bring to an even stranger result, which is 6011111101, which obviously doesnt make any sense.
What do you mean, exactly, when you say you want to count these two numbers? Maybe you want to make a sum? I guess that's it.
But then, again, what you got there is two signed integer numbers and not two binaries, which means those %10 and %2 operations are (probably) misused.
EDIT 2015-11-07_17:20
I've tried to use your program with small binary strings and it actually works; with small binary strings.
It's a fact(?), at this point, that atol cant handle numerical strings that long.
My suggestion: use char arrays instead of strings and replace 0 and 1 characters with numerical values (if (bin1[i]){bin1[i]=1;}else{bin1[i]=0}) with which you'll be able to perform all the math operations you want (you've already written a working sum function, after all).
Once done with the math, you can just convert the char array back to actual characters for 0 and 1 and cout it on the screen.
EDIT 2015-11-07_17:30
Tested atol on my own: it correctly converts only strings that are up to 10 characters long.
Anything beyond the 10th character makes the function go crazy.

C++/CLI - Split a string with a unknown number of spaces as separator?

I'm wondering how (and in which way it's best to do it) to split a string with a unknown number of spaces as separator in C++/CLI?
Edit: The problem is that the space number is unknown, so when I try to use the split method like this:
String^ line;
StreamReader^ SCR = gcnew StreamReader("input.txt");
while ((line = SCR->ReadLine()) != nullptr && line != nullptr)
{
if (line->IndexOf(' ') != -1)
for each (String^ SCS in line->Split(nullptr, 2))
{
//Load the lines...
}
}
And this is a example how Input.txt look:
ThisISSomeTxt<space><space><space><tab>PartNumberTwo<space>PartNumber3
When I then try to run the program the first line that is loaded is "ThisISSomeTxt" the second line that is loaded is "" (nothing), the third line that is loaded is also "" (nothing), the fourth line is also "" nothing, the fifth line that is loaded is " PartNumberTwo" and the sixth line is PartNumber3.
I only want ThisISSomeTxt and PartNumberTwo to be loaded :? How can I do this?
Why not just using System::String::Split(..)?
The following code example taken from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b873y76a(v=vs.80).aspx#Y0 , demonstrates how you can tokenize a string with the Split method.
using namespace System;
using namespace System::Collections;
int main()
{
String^ words = "this is a list of words, with: a bit of punctuation.";
array<Char>^chars = {' ',',','->',':'};
array<String^>^split = words->Split( chars );
IEnumerator^ myEnum = split->GetEnumerator();
while ( myEnum->MoveNext() )
{
String^ s = safe_cast<String^>(myEnum->Current);
if ( !s->Trim()->Equals( "" ) )
Console::WriteLine( s );
}
}
I think you can do what you need to do with the String.Split method.
First, I think you're expecting the 'count' parameter to work differently: You're passing in 2, and expecting the first and second results to be returned, and the third result to be thrown out. What it actually return is the first result, and the second & third results concatenated into one string. If all you want is ThisISSomeTxt and PartNumberTwo, you'll want to manually throw away results after the first 2.
As far as I can tell, you don't want any whitespace included in your return strings. If that's the case, I think this is what you want:
String^ line = "ThisISSomeTxt \tPartNumberTwo PartNumber3";
array<String^>^ split = line->Split((array<String^>^)nullptr, StringSplitOptions::RemoveEmptyEntries);
for(int i = 0; i < split->Length && i < 2; i++)
{
Debug::WriteLine("{0}: '{1}'", i, split[i]);
}
Results:
0: 'ThisISSomeTxt'
1: 'PartNumberTwo'

Find Unique Characters in a File

I have a file with 450,000+ rows of entries. Each entry is about 7 characters in length. What I want to know is the unique characters of this file.
For instance, if my file were the following;
Entry
-----
Yabba
Dabba
Doo
Then the result would be
Unique characters: {abdoy}
Notice I don't care about case and don't need to order the results. Something tells me this is very easy for the Linux folks to solve.
Update
I'm looking for a very fast solution. I really don't want to have to create code to loop over each entry, loop through each character...and so on. I'm looking for a nice script solution.
Update 2
By Fast, I mean fast to implement...not necessarily fast to run.
BASH shell script version (no sed/awk):
while read -n 1 char; do echo "$char"; done < entry.txt | tr [A-Z] [a-z] | sort -u
UPDATE: Just for the heck of it, since I was bored and still thinking about this problem, here's a C++ version using set. If run time is important this would be my recommended option, since the C++ version takes slightly more than half a second to process a file with 450,000+ entries.
#include <iostream>
#include <set>
int main() {
std::set<char> seen_chars;
std::set<char>::const_iterator iter;
char ch;
/* ignore whitespace and case */
while ( std::cin.get(ch) ) {
if (! isspace(ch) ) {
seen_chars.insert(tolower(ch));
}
}
for( iter = seen_chars.begin(); iter != seen_chars.end(); ++iter ) {
std::cout << *iter << std::endl;
}
return 0;
}
Note that I'm ignoring whitespace and it's case insensitive as requested.
For a 450,000+ entry file (chars.txt), here's a sample run time:
[user#host]$ g++ -o unique_chars unique_chars.cpp
[user#host]$ time ./unique_chars < chars.txt
a
b
d
o
y
real 0m0.638s
user 0m0.612s
sys 0m0.017s
As requested, a pure shell-script "solution":
sed -e "s/./\0\n/g" inputfile | sort -u
It's not nice, it's not fast and the output is not exactly as specified, but it should work ... mostly.
For even more ridiculousness, I present the version that dumps the output on one line:
sed -e "s/./\0\n/g" inputfile | sort -u | while read c; do echo -n "$c" ; done
Use a set data structure. Most programming languages / standard libraries come with one flavour or another. If they don't, use a hash table (or generally, dictionary) implementation and just omit the value field. Use your characters as keys. These data structures generally filter out duplicate entries (hence the name set, from its mathematical usage: sets don't have a particular order and only unique values).
Quick and dirty C program that's blazingly fast:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
int chars[256] = {0}, c;
while((c = getchar()) != EOF)
chars[c] = 1;
for(c = 32; c < 127; c++) // printable chars only
{
if(chars[c])
putchar(c);
}
putchar('\n');
return 0;
}
Compile it, then do
cat file | ./a.out
To get a list of the unique printable characters in file.
Python w/sets (quick and dirty)
s = open("data.txt", "r").read()
print "Unique Characters: {%s}" % ''.join(set(s))
Python w/sets (with nicer output)
import re
text = open("data.txt", "r").read().lower()
unique = re.sub('\W, '', ''.join(set(text))) # Ignore non-alphanumeric
print "Unique Characters: {%s}" % unique
Here's a PowerShell example:
gc file.txt | select -Skip 2 | % { $_.ToCharArray() } | sort -CaseSensitive -Unique
which produces:
D
Y
a
b
o
I like that it's easy to read.
EDIT: Here's a faster version:
$letters = #{} ; gc file.txt | select -Skip 2 | % { $_.ToCharArray() } | % { $letters[$_] = $true } ; $letters.Keys
A very fast solution would be to make a small C program that reads its standard input, does the aggregation and spits out the result.
Why the arbitrary limitation that you need a "script" that does it?
What exactly is a script anyway?
Would Python do?
If so, then this is one solution:
import sys;
s = set([]);
while True:
line = sys.stdin.readline();
if not line:
break;
line = line.rstrip();
for c in line.lower():
s.add(c);
print("".join(sorted(s)));
Algorithm:
Slurp the file into memory.
Create an array of unsigned ints, initialized to zero.
Iterate though the in memory file, using each byte as a subscript into the array.
increment that array element.
Discard the in memory file
Iterate the array of unsigned int
if the count is not zero,
display the character, and its corresponding count.
cat yourfile |
perl -e 'while(<>){chomp;$k{$_}++ for split(//, lc $_)}print keys %k,"\n";'
Alternative solution using bash:
sed "s/./\l\0\n/g" inputfile | sort -u | grep -vc ^$
EDIT Sorry, I actually misread the question. The above code counts the unique characters. Just omitting the c switch at the end obviously does the trick but then, this solution has no real advantage to saua's (especially since he now uses the same sed pattern instead of explicit captures).
While not an script this java program will do the work. It's easy to understand an fast ( to run )
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
public class Unique {
public static void main( String [] args ) throws IOException {
int c = 0;
Set s = new TreeSet();
while( ( c = System.in.read() ) > 0 ) {
s.add( Character.toLowerCase((char)c));
}
System.out.println( "Unique characters:" + s );
}
}
You'll invoke it like this:
type yourFile | java Unique
or
cat yourFile | java Unique
For instance, the unique characters in the HTML of this question are:
Unique characters:[ , , , , !, ", #, $, %, &, ', (, ), +, ,, -, ., /, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, :, ;, <, =, >, ?, #, [, \, ], ^, _, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z, {, |, }]
Print unique characters (ASCII and Unicode UTF-8)
import codecs
file = codecs.open('my_file_name', encoding='utf-8')
# Runtime: O(1)
letters = set()
# Runtime: O(n^2)
for line in file:
for character in line:
letters.add(character)
# Runtime: O(n)
letter_str = ''.join(letters)
print(letter_str)
Save as unique.py, and run as python unique.py.
in c++ i would first loop through the letters in the alphabet then run a strchr() on each with the file as a string. this will tell you if that letter exists, then just add it to the list.
Try this file with JSDB Javascript (includes the javascript engine in the Firefox browser):
var seenAlreadyMap={};
var seenAlreadyArray=[];
while (!system.stdin.eof)
{
var L = system.stdin.readLine();
for (var i = L.length; i-- > 0; )
{
var c = L[i].toLowerCase();
if (!(c in seenAlreadyMap))
{
seenAlreadyMap[c] = true;
seenAlreadyArray.push(c);
}
}
}
system.stdout.writeln(seenAlreadyArray.sort().join(''));
Python using a dictionary. I don't know why people are so tied to sets or lists to hold stuff. Granted a set is probably more efficient than a dictionary. However both are supposed to take constant time to access items. And both run circles around a list where for each character you search the list to see if the character is already in the list or not. Also Lists and Dictionaries are built in Python datatatypes that everyone should be using all the time. So even if set doesn't come to mind, dictionary should.
file = open('location.txt', 'r')
letters = {}
for line in file:
if line == "":
break
for character in line.strip():
if character not in letters:
letters[character] = True
file.close()
print "Unique Characters: {" + "".join(letters.keys()) + "}"
A C solution. Admittedly it is not the fastest to code solution in the world. But since it is already coded and can be cut and pasted, I think it counts as "fast to implement" for the poster :) I didn't actually see any C solutions so I wanted to post one for the pure sadistic pleasure :)
#include<stdio.h>
#define CHARSINSET 256
#define FILENAME "location.txt"
char buf[CHARSINSET + 1];
char *getUniqueCharacters(int *charactersInFile) {
int x;
char *bufptr = buf;
for (x = 0; x< CHARSINSET;x++) {
if (charactersInFile[x] > 0)
*bufptr++ = (char)x;
}
bufptr = '\0';
return buf;
}
int main() {
FILE *fp;
char c;
int *charactersInFile = calloc(sizeof(int), CHARSINSET);
if (NULL == (fp = fopen(FILENAME, "rt"))) {
printf ("File not found.\n");
return 1;
}
while(1) {
c = getc(fp);
if (c == EOF) {
break;
}
if (c != '\n' && c != '\r')
charactersInFile[c]++;
}
fclose(fp);
printf("Unique characters: {%s}\n", getUniqueCharacters(charactersInFile));
return 0;
}
Quick and dirty solution using grep (assuming the file name is "file"):
for char in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z; do
if [ ! -z "`grep -li $char file`" ]; then
echo -n $char;
fi;
done;
echo
I could have made it a one-liner but just want to make it easier to read.
(EDIT: forgot the -i switch to grep)
Well my friend, I think this is what you had in mind....At least this is the python version!!!
f = open("location.txt", "r") # open file
ll = sorted(list(f.read().lower())) #Read file into memory, split into individual characters, sort list
ll = [val for idx, val in enumerate(ll) if (idx == 0 or val != ll[idx-1])] # eliminate duplicates
f.close()
print "Unique Characters: {%s}" % "".join(ll) #print list of characters, carriage return will throw in a return
It does not iterate through each character, it is relatively short as well. You wouldn't want to open a 500 MB file with it (depending upon your RAM) but for shorter files it is fun :)
I also have to add my final attack!!!! Admittedly I eliminated two lines by using standard input instead of a file, I also reduced the active code from 3 lines to 2. Basically if I replaced ll in the print line with the expression from the line above it, I could have had 1 line of active code and one line of imports.....Anyway now we are having fun :)
import itertools, sys
# read standard input into memory, split into characters, eliminate duplicates
ll = map(lambda x:x[0], itertools.groupby(sorted(list(sys.stdin.read().lower()))))
print "Unique Characters: {%s}" % "".join(ll) #print list of characters, carriage return will throw in a return
This answer above mentioned using a dictionary.
If so, the code presented there can be streamlined a bit, since the Python documentation states:
It is best to think of a dictionary as
an unordered set of key: value pairs,
with the requirement that the keys are
unique (within one dictionary).... If
you store using a key that is already
in use, the old value associated with
that key is forgotten.
Therefore, this line of the code can be removed, since the dictionary keys will always be unique anyway:
if character not in letters:
And that should make it a little faster.
Where C:/data.txt contains 454,863 rows of seven random alphabetic characters, the following code
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections;
using System.Diagnostics;
namespace ConsoleApplication {
class Program {
static void Main(string[] args) {
FileInfo fileInfo = new FileInfo(#"C:/data.txt");
Console.WriteLine(fileInfo.Length);
Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();
sw.Start();
Hashtable table = new Hashtable();
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(#"C:/data.txt");
while (!sr.EndOfStream) {
char c = Char.ToLower((char)sr.Read());
if (!table.Contains(c)) {
table.Add(c, null);
}
}
sr.Close();
foreach (char c in table.Keys) {
Console.Write(c);
}
Console.WriteLine();
sw.Stop();
Console.WriteLine(sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);
}
}
}
produces output
4093767
mytojevqlgbxsnidhzupkfawr
c
889
Press any key to continue . . .
The first line of output tells you the number of bytes in C:/data.txt (454,863 * (7 + 2) = 4,093,767 bytes). The next two lines of output are the unique characters in C:/data.txt (including a newline). The last line of output tells you the number of milliseconds the code took to execute on a 2.80 GHz Pentium 4.
s=open("text.txt","r").read()
l= len(s)
unique ={}
for i in range(l):
if unique.has_key(s[i]):
unique[s[i]]=unique[s[i]]+1
else:
unique[s[i]]=1
print unique
Python without using a set.
file = open('location', 'r')
letters = []
for line in file:
for character in line:
if character not in letters:
letters.append(character)
print(letters)
Old question, I know, but here's a fast solution, meaning it runs fast, and it's probably also pretty fast to code if you know how to copy/paste ;)
BACKGROUND
I had a huge csv file (12 GB, 1.34 million lines, 12.72 billion characters) that I was loading into postgres that was failing because it had some "bad" characters in it, so naturally I was trying to find a character not in that file that I could use as a quote character.
1. First try: Jay's C++ solution
I started with #jay's C++ answer:
(Note: all of these code examples were compiled with g++ -O2 uniqchars.cpp -o uniqchars)
#include <iostream>
#include <set>
int main() {
std::set<char> seen_chars;
std::set<char>::const_iterator iter;
char ch;
/* ignore whitespace and case */
while ( std::cin.get(ch) ) {
if (! isspace(ch) ) {
seen_chars.insert(tolower(ch));
}
}
for( iter = seen_chars.begin(); iter != seen_chars.end(); ++iter ) {
std::cout << *iter << std::endl;
}
return 0;
}
Timing for this one:
real 10m55.026s
user 10m51.691s
sys 0m3.329s
2. Read entire file at once
I figured it'd be more efficient to read in the entire file into memory at once, rather than all those calls to cin.get(). This reduced the run time by more than half.
(I also added a filename as a command line argument, and made it print out the characters separated by spaces instead of newlines).
#include <set>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <iterator>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
std::set<char> seen_chars;
std::set<char>::const_iterator iter;
std::ifstream ifs(argv[1]);
ifs.seekg(0, std::ios::end);
size_t size = ifs.tellg();
fprintf(stderr, "Size of file: %lu\n", size);
std::string str(size, ' ');
ifs.seekg(0);
ifs.read(&str[0], size);
/* ignore whitespace and case */
for (char& ch : str) {
if (!isspace(ch)) {
seen_chars.insert(tolower(ch));
}
}
for(iter = seen_chars.begin(); iter != seen_chars.end(); ++iter) {
std::cout << *iter << " ";
}
std::cout << std::endl;
return 0;
}
Timing for this one:
real 4m41.910s
user 3m32.014s
sys 0m17.858s
3. Remove isspace() check and tolower()
Besides the set insert, isspace() and tolower() are the only things happening in the for loop, so I figured I'd remove them. It shaved off another 1.5 minutes.
#include <set>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <iterator>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
std::set<char> seen_chars;
std::set<char>::const_iterator iter;
std::ifstream ifs(argv[1]);
ifs.seekg(0, std::ios::end);
size_t size = ifs.tellg();
fprintf(stderr, "Size of file: %lu\n", size);
std::string str(size, ' ');
ifs.seekg(0);
ifs.read(&str[0], size);
for (char& ch : str) {
// removed isspace() and tolower()
seen_chars.insert(ch);
}
for(iter = seen_chars.begin(); iter != seen_chars.end(); ++iter) {
std::cout << *iter << " ";
}
std::cout << std::endl;
return 0;
}
Timing for final version:
real 3m12.397s
user 2m58.771s
sys 0m13.624s
The simple solution from #Triptych helped me already (my input was a file of 124 MB in size, so this approach to read the entire contents into memory still worked).
However, I had a problem with encoding, python didn't interpret the UTF8 encoded input correctly. So here's a slightly modified version which works for UTF8 encoded files (and also sorts the collected characters in the output):
import io
with io.open("my-file.csv",'r',encoding='utf8') as f:
text = f.read()
print "Unique Characters: {%s}" % ''.join(sorted(set(text)))

Need a program to reverse the words in a string

I asked this question in a few interviews. I want to know from the Stackoverflow readers as to what should be the answer to this question.
Such a seemingly simple question, but has been interpreted quite a few different ways.
if your definition of a "word" is a series of non-whitespace characters surrounded by a whitespace character, then in 5 second pseudocode you do:
var words = split(inputString, " ")
var reverse = new array
var count = words.count -1
var i = 0
while count != 0
reverse[i] = words[count]
count--
i++
return reverse
If you want to take into consideration also spaces, you can do it like that:
string word = "hello my name is";
string result="";
int k=word.size();
for (int j=word.size()-1; j>=0; j--)
{
while(word[j]!= ' ' && j>=0)
j--;
int end=k;
k=j+1;
int count=0;
if (j>=0)
{
int temp=j;
while (word[temp]==' '){
count++;
temp--;
}
j-=count;
}
else j=j+1;
result+=word.substr(k,end-k);
k-=count;
while(count!=0)
{
result+=' ';
count--;
}
}
It will print out for you "is name my hello"
Taken from something called "Hacking a Google Interview" that was somewhere on my computer ... don't know from where I got it but I remember I saw this exact question inside ... here is the answer:
Reverse the string by swapping the
first character with the last
character, the second with the
second-to-last character, and so on.
Then, go through the string looking
for spaces, so that you find where
each of the words is. Reverse each of
the words you encounter by again
swapping the first character with the
last character, the second character
with the second-to-last character, and
so on.
This came up in LessThanDot Programmer Puzzles
#include<stdio.h>
void reverse_word(char *,int,int);
int main()
{
char s[80],temp;
int l,i,k;
int lower,upper;
printf("Enter the ssentence\n");
gets(s);
l=strlen(s);
printf("%d\n",l);
k=l;
for(i=0;i<l;i++)
{
if(k<=i)
{temp=s[i];
s[i]=s[l-1-i];
s[l-1-i]=temp;}
k--;
}
printf("%s\n",s);
lower=0;
upper=0;
for(i=0;;i++)
{
if(s[i]==' '||s[i]=='\0')
{upper=i-1;
reverse_word(s,lower,upper);
lower=i+1;
}
if(s[i]=='\0')
break;
}
printf("%s",s);
return 0;
}
void reverse_word(char *s,int lower,int upper)
{
char temp;
//int i;
while(upper>lower)
{
temp=s[lower];
s[lower]=s[upper];
s[upper]=temp;
upper=upper-1;
lower=lower+1;
}
}
The following code (C++) will convert a string this is a test to test a is this:
string reverseWords(string str)
{
string result = "";
vector<string> strs;
stringstream S(str);
string s;
while (S>>s)
strs.push_back(s);
reverse(strs.begin(), strs.end());
if (strs.size() > 0)
result = strs[0];
for(int i=1; i<strs.size(); i++)
result += " " + strs[i];
return result;
}
PS: it's actually a google code jam question, more info can be found here.

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