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Domnic
Domnic

Reputation: 5297

How to get distinct characters?

I have a code like

string code = "AABBDDCCRRFF";

In this code, I want to retrieve only distinct characters

The Output should be like:

ANS: ABDCRF

Upvotes: 29

Views: 64204

Answers (9)

codingbadger
codingbadger

Reputation: 43984

Just for the heck of it -- using a StringBuilder

 string code = "AABBDDCCRRFF";
 StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
 code.Distinct().ToList().ForEach(c => sb.Append(c));
 MessageBox.Show(sb.ToString());

Upvotes: -2

user9451410
user9451410

Reputation: 11

To get all distinct characters I have used ascii array. steps 1. Added ascii array of size 256, becuase max char ascii value is 255 step 2. increment each ascii to the location of particular alphabet's ascii value

please refer below code to understand.

public static class StringManipulation
{
  public static string UniqueChars(this string astrInputString)
  {
       astrInputString = astrInputString.ToLower();
    int[] arrAscii = new int[256];
    string lstrFinalOutput = string.Empty;
    for (int i = 0; i < astrInputString.Length; i++)
    {
        arrAscii[Convert.ToInt32(astrInputString[i])]++;
    }

    for (int i = 0; i < astrInputString.Length; i++)
    {
        if (arrAscii[Convert.ToInt32(astrInputString[i])] == 1)
            lstrFinalOutput = lstrFinalOutput + astrInputString[i];
    }
    return lstrFinalOutput;
  }
}
class Program
{
  static void Main(string[] args)
  {
    string input = "AAssjjkkLLlx";
    Console.WriteLine("Unique Charcters in string " + input.UniqueChars());

  }
}

Click to Download this Code https://github.com/SiddharthBhamare/StringManipulation/blob/master/StringManipulation/Program.cs

Upvotes: 0

Mantorok
Mantorok

Reputation: 5266

How about in linq:

var str = "AABBCCDDDDDDEEEEEFFF";
var unique = str.ToCharArray().Distinct();
Console.WriteLine("Answer: {0}.", string.Join(string.Empty, unique));

Upvotes: 2

Robin Day
Robin Day

Reputation: 102478

string code = "AABBDDCCRRFF";
string answer = new String(code.Distinct().ToArray());

Upvotes: 51

kyy8080
kyy8080

Reputation: 43

Here's an approach with grouping by characters...

var code="AABBDDCCRRFF";
var unique = string.Concat(text.GroupBy(a => a).Select(a => a.Key));

Upvotes: 0

gesown
gesown

Reputation: 21

Here's an approach that provides the string and a count of the distinct characters...

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace StringDict
{
    class Program
    {
        static IDictionary<char, int> charDict =new Dictionary<char, int>();
        static private string _charStr = "s;ldfjgsl;dkkjfg;lsdkfjg;lsdkfjg;lsdkfjg;lsdkfj";
        private static int _outInt=0;
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            foreach (var ch in _charStr)
            {
                if (!charDict.TryGetValue(ch,out _outInt))
                {
                    charDict.Add(new KeyValuePair<char, int>(ch,1));
                }
                else
                {
                    charDict[ch]++;
                }
            }
            Console.Write("Unique Characters: ");
            Console.WriteLine('\n');
            foreach (var kvp in charDict)
            {
                Console.Write(kvp.Key);
            }
            Console.WriteLine('\n');
            foreach (var kvp in charDict)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Char: "+kvp.Key+" Count: "+kvp.Value);
            }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

Output...

Unique Characters:

s;ldfjgk

Char: s Count: 6
Char: ; Count: 6
Char: l Count: 6
Char: d Count: 6
Char: f Count: 6
Char: j Count: 6
Char: g Count: 5
Char: k Count: 6

Upvotes: 2

caveman_dick
caveman_dick

Reputation: 6637

Alternative option using dotNet 2.0 compatible code:

public string RemoveDuplicateChars(string input)
{
    var stringBuilder = new StringBuilder(input);

    foreach (char c in input)
    {
        stringBuilder.Replace(c.ToString(), string.Empty)
                     .Append(c.ToString());
    }

    return stringBuilder.ToString();
}

Upvotes: 3

Peter Kelly
Peter Kelly

Reputation: 14391

You can do this as follows 

var s = "AABBDDCCRRFF";
var result = s.Distinct();
var distinct = result.Aggregate(string.Empty, (current, c) => current + c.ToString());
Console.WriteLine(distinct);

Upvotes: 0

Geoff Appleford
Geoff Appleford

Reputation: 18832

Linq's Distinct returns distinct elements from a sequence. As the String class implements IEnumerable<char>, Distinct in this context returns an IEnumerable<char> containing all of the unique characters in the string.

code.Distinct();

Upvotes: 10

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