Strings not changing

damnyanks

Hi hi,

Was wondering if anyone could help. I've attached a text file which I'm sorting and counting which all works fine to the most part. There are some values at the end which arent being stripped properly was wondering if anyone knows why

Below are the characters which are removed from the text file. I'm reading in alice in wonderland, counting the words then sorting it in a balanced tree. So that all works fine, but I think I'm overlooking some text values to modify (As I build a word up once I hit " " assumes a new word is coming in)

        private string removeEscapeCharacters(string value)
        {
            value = value.Replace("\t", string.Empty);
            value = value.Replace("\v", string.Empty);
            value = value.Replace("\n", string.Empty);
            value = value.Replace("\r", string.Empty);
            value = value.Replace("\'", string.Empty);
            value = value.Replace("\"", string.Empty);
            value = value.Replace("-", string.Empty);
            value = value.Replace("!", string.Empty);
            value = value.Replace("?", string.Empty);
            value = value.Replace("_", string.Empty);
            value = value.Replace("`", string.Empty);
            value = value.Replace("(", string.Empty);
            value = value.Replace(")", string.Empty);

            return value;
        }

P.s the text file is the sorted and counted file. The values that arent being converted properly are at the bottom of the text file.

damnyanks

Also while I'm at it. Does anyone have a cheaper solution for writing hte values to the text file?

currently have the following

            foreach (int q in fdq)
            {
                string value = orderWordStructure().Values.ToString();
                File.WriteAllText(@"c:\f.txt", value);
            }

the rest of the algorithm kicks in just fine. The writing to disk takes about 15 seconds! Can I write 1meg to a stream and dump it into a text file quicker?

Hobbes

Why not just read it in blocks?

As for the first question haven't tested it, but I would use StringTokenizer and just have those as token seperators. Although there is probably an easier way again.

Mutant_Fruit

Firstly, check out "Regex", in particular use the Regex.Replace method to filter out the letters you don't want.

Secondly, what's the problem? I don't know what you textfile is supposed to look like, and i dont know what's wrong with it. You'll have to explain a bit better what the problem is.

Finally,

foreach (int q in fdq)
            {
                string value = orderWordStructure().Values.ToString();
                File.WriteAllText(@"c:\f.txt", value);
            }

For each int in fdq you are writing out the *entire* of the order word structure. That means you're writing the exact same thing potentially hundreds of times one after the other to the disk. Thats what its slow.

Remove the "foreach" and you'll be fine.

damnyanks

Did some screwing about with regex and it murdered my computer. I'm parsing the wholoe alice in wonderland as my test. Finally figured out the slow disk thing thanks

It's all working fine now.

Anyone know where I could get a list of prnouns, nouns etc. ?

damnyanks

Already comiled that is. GOing through google english websites at the moment