I’m having problem figuring out how to check from users input letters that were repeated. Program needs to output repeated letter as true and if there isn’t any then as false. Program should not count numbers or symbols as repeated.
For example:
User input: Chocolate
Program Output: TrueUser input: 112 cream
Program Output: False
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Answer
Here is another version, based on answer from @rell but with no HashSet
or char[]
creation.
private static boolean check(String input) { for (int i = 0; i < input.length(); i++) { char ch = input.charAt(i); if (Character.isLetter(ch) && input.indexOf(ch, i + 1) != -1) { return true; } } return false; }
For smaller input strings, this will most likely be faster because of that. But for longer input strings, the version from @rell is potentially faster as he is using a HashSet
with O(1)
lookup/insert, and since the loop is O(n)
the total is O(n)
. And my solution is O(n^2)
(loop O(n)
multiplied with indexOf
with O(n)
), worst case input would be something like this abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzz
.
Update Another version with streams.
private static boolean check(String input) { IntStream characters = input.codePoints().filter(Character::isLetter); return characters .distinct() .count() == characters.count(); }
Update Fixed bug in stream version