CODEWITHSUNDEEP
groovy
Ant's
Ant's

Reputation: 13811

Which implementation need to be selected in Groovy, for this problem?

I have been learning Groovy for a week, but I have a problem: I need to store the combinations of words to the corresponding ascii values. For example the combinations of the word "the" and the sum of the ascii values of each characters is 10(not exactly,but still for example).

There are, obviously, other words where the sum of ascii values is 10. I want a data structure where I can look up the value 10 and get the words where the sum of the ascii values is 10. I can't do this in Groovy Map, because the key value should be unique. How to do this in Groovy?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 137

Answers (4)

tim_yates
tim_yates

Reputation: 171184

You could do something like this as well:

def words = [ 'the', 'het', 'love', 'groovy' ]

words.groupBy { ( it as char[] ).collect { it as int }.sum() }

That gives you the map:

[321:[the, het], 438:[love], 678:[groovy]]

Upvotes: 3

Christoph Metzendorf
Christoph Metzendorf

Reputation: 8078

Here's a small example that initiates a Map that returns an empty List in case a key is requested for the first time using the withDefault method:

def map = [:].withDefault { [] }

map[10] << 'the'
map[10] << 'as'
map[20] << 'from'

assert map[10] == ['the', 'as']
assert map[20] == ['from']

Upvotes: 2

Tomasz Nurkiewicz
Tomasz Nurkiewicz

Reputation: 340973

You need a multi-map data structure. One can be found in Apache Commons, another one in Guava.

In Groovy you can use a simple Map of int -> list, with default value for convenience.

Upvotes: 1

Geo
Geo

Reputation: 96957

A map of Int to List of String should fix this. Simply append the words having the same sum, to the list corresponding to a key.

Upvotes: 1

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