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Compare 2 textbox values charcter by character

I want to comapare two textbox values words by words and check if the words are same or not. If its not same then it should tell me the percentage of matching words.
For example : I am a good boy(text box1)
Am a god boy (text box 2)
Then the result should be (3/5)*100 as 2 words are not matching that is I and good.
Please tell me how to do this.

here is a code as you want
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String str1 = "I am a good boy";
String [] s_str1 = str1.split(" ");
String str2 = "Am a god boy";
String [] s_str2 = str2.split(" ");
int match = 0;
for(int i=0;i<s_str1.length;i++){
for(int j=0;j<s_str2.length;j++){
if(s_str1[i].equalsIgnoreCase(s_str2[j])){
match++;
}
}
}
int result = match*100/s_str1.length; //use length of string which is
your main str
System.out.println(result);
}
}

Try this:
int getCommonWords(String s1, String s2) {
Set<String> set1 = new HashSet<>(Arrays.asList(s1.split(" ")));
Set<String> set2 = new HashSet<>(Arrays.asList(s2.split(" ")));
set1.retainAll(set2);
return set1.size();
}
returns the number of common words between 2 strings. It is case-sensitive.

Handle comma separated string

Creating an app in which i want to get string from json but i have one key and multiple value so i don't know how to handle this.
"colours": "#fff600,#000000,#ffffff,#00000,#ff9900,#333333"
And want to use this color in different class:
final ValueAnimator colorAnimation = ValueAnimator.ofObject(new android.animation.ArgbEvaluator(), Color.RED, Color.BLUE,Color.WHITE,Color.YELLOW,Color.CYAN,Color.MAGENTA,Color.GREEN,Color.GRAY);
colorAnimation.setDuration(1400);

Put the value of colours in string variable and then split the string in following way and add it to an arraylist :
String[] arr = str.split(",");
ArrayList<String> arr1 = new ArrayList<String>();
for (int i=0; i<arr.length; i++){
arr1.add(arr[i]);
}

Get value of color and use string tokenizer with ',' delima like this:
StringTokenizer stringTokenizer = new StringTokenizer(colorValueString, ",");
Also it has stringTokenizer.nextToken to get the next color in string

You can get the value of colours as a string and then split the string into parts like this:
String colours = json.getString("colours");
Log.d(TAG, colours);
String items[] = colours.split(",");
for (String item : items) {
Log.d(TAG, item);
}

If you own the json
You should use JSONArray:
"colours": ["#fff600","#000000","#ffffff","#00000","#ff9900","#333333"]
And read it like
JSONObject json = ...;
JSONArray colorsArray = json.getJSONArray("colours");
for(int i = 0; i < colorsArray.length(); i++) {
String colorString = colorsArray.getString(i);
int color = Color.parseColor(colorString);
// you should probably also catch IllegalArgumentException for wrong input
}
If you don't own the json
You can read it as string and split around commas:
JSONObject json = ...;
String colorsString = json.getString("colours");
String[] colorStrings = colorsString.split(",");
for(String string : colorStrings) {
int color = Color.parseColor(string);
// you should probably also catch IllegalArgumentException for wrong input
}

Reomve special character from Arraylist

I am trying to remove special character from arraylist.
Not getting click how to do this?
I have 3 editfield and filling text after certain conditions
means when 1 is filled then another can be filled. now when i click to save this. this returns an array like [hello,abc,zbz] for fields
private List<String> hashtagData;
hashtagData = new ArrayList<String>();
String status_message = status.getText().toString();
String status_message2 = status2.getText().toString();
String status_message3 = status3.getText().toString();
hashtagData.add(status_message);
hashtagData.add(status_message2);
hashtagData.add(status_message3);
But I am trying to remove "[]".
Thank you if anybody can help.

Here try this:
ArrayList<String> strCol = new ArrayList<String>();
strCol.add("[a,b,c,d,e]");
strCol.add(".a.a.b");
strCol.add("1,2,].3]");
for (String string : strCol) {
System.out.println(removeCharacter(string));
}
private String removeCharacter(String word) {
String[] specialCharacters = { "[", "}" ,"]",",","."};
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(word);
for (int i = 0;i < sb.toString().length() - 1;i++){
for (String specialChar : specialCharacters) {
if (sb.toString().contains(specialChar)) {
int index = sb.indexOf(specialChar);
sb.deleteCharAt(index);
}
}
}
return sb.toString();
}

Create regex which matches with your criteria, then loop through your list.
String myRegex = "[^a-zA-Z0-9]";
int index = 0;
for (String your_string : list)
list.set(index++, s.replaceAll(myRegex, ""));

can use below function to remove special character from string using regular expressions.
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
public string RemoveSpecialCharacters(string str)
{
return Regex.Replace(str, "[^a-zA-Z0-9_.]+", "", RegexOptions.Compiled);
}

How to save an array of strings with SharedPreferences?

I have an array of Strings, I need to save this array with SharedPreferences, and then read and display them on a ListView.
For now, I use this algorithm:
SharedPreferences sp = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(getApplicationContext());
//To save the strings
public void saveStrings(String[] str){
int a = 0;
int lenght = str.length;
while (a<lenght){
sp.edit().putString(Integer.toString(a), Integer.toString(str[a])).apply();
a=a+1;
}
}
//To read the strings
public String[] getStrings(){
String[] str = new String [8];
int a = 0;
int lenght = 8; //To read 8 strings
while (a<lenght){
str[a] = sp.getString(Integer.toString(a),"Null");
a=a+1;
}
return str;
}
Is there a way to save and read the entire array, rather than a string at a time?
For this project I'm using API level 19 (Android 4.4.2 KitKat)

Well, you could use putStringSet(), but (a) it's only from API level 11 onwards, and (b) as its name says, it's for sets (which means that you will lose the original ordering and any duplicates present in the array).
We solved this problem by "encoding" collections into a string and using putString() and decoding them afterwards on getString(), with this pair of methods (for ArrayList, but should be easily convertible into array versions):
public String encodeStringList(List<String> list, char separator)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(list.size() * 50);
for (String item : list)
{
if (sb.length() != 0)
sb.append(separator);
// Escape the separator character.
sb.append(item.replace(Character.toString(separator), "\\" + separator));
}
return sb.toString();
}
public List<String> decodeStringList(String encoded, char separator)
{
ArrayList<String> items = new ArrayList<String>();
if (encoded != null && encoded.length() != 0)
{
// Use negative look-behind with backslash, because it's used for escaping the separator.
// Expression is "(?<!\)s" with doubling because of escaping in regex, and again because of escaping in Java).
String splitter = "(?<!\\\\)" + separator; //$NON-NLS-1$
String[] parts = encoded.split(splitter);
// While converting to list, take out the escape characters used to escape the now-removed separator.
for (int i = 0; i < parts.length; i++)
items.add(parts[i].replace("\\" + separator, Character.toString(separator)));
}
return items;
}

Set<String> set =list.getStringSet("key", null);
Set<String> set = new HashSet<String>();
set.addAll(list of the string list u have);
editor.putStringSet("key", set);
editor.commit();
Please refer to this thread for further details Save ArrayList to SharedPreferences

//while storing
str is string array
String fin="";
for(i=0;i<n;i++){
fin=fin+str[i]+",";
}
fin=fin.substring(0,fin.length()-1);
//while retrieving
List<String> items = Arrays.asList(fin.split("\\s*,\\s*"));

JSON Array of strings (no objects), extracting data

I have a long JSON string representing a string[] array being returned from a WCF service. The array elements are simply strings, they are not objects. This is an example of the return data
["1|ArrayElement1","2|ArrayElement2","3|ArrayElement3"..."n|ArrayElementn"]
I don't mind the index being included in the string, but I need to parse the strings into an ArrayList in Android so that I can adapt it to a ListView.
Since these technically aren't JSONObjects, how can I iterate over them and extract the string from each array element?

this is a valid JSON array of strings, you can parse it normally like this
JSONArray jsonStrings = json.getJSONArray("items");
String strings[] = new String[jsonStrings.length()];
for(int i=0;i<strings.length;i++) {
strings[i] = jsonStrings.getString(i);
}

Maybe this post can help you out:
JSON Array iteration in Android/Java
HashMap<String, String> applicationSettings = new HashMap<String,String>();
for(int i = 0; i < settings.length(); i++){
String value = settings.getJSONObject(i).getString("value");
String name = settings.getJSONObject(i).getString("name");
applicationSettings.put(name, value);
}
JSONArray names= json.names();
JSONArray values = json.toJSONArray(names);
for(int i = 0 ; i < values.length(); i++){
if(names.getString(i).equals("description")){
setDescription(values.getString(i));
}
else if(names.getString(i).equals("expiryDate")){
String dateString = values.getString(i);
setExpiryDate(stringToDateHelper(dateString));
}
else if(names.getString(i).equals("id")){
setId(values.getLong(i));
}
else if(names.getString(i).equals("offerCode")){
setOfferCode(values.getString(i));
}
else if(names.getString(i).equals("startDate")){
String dateString = values.getString(i);
setStartDate(stringToDateHelper(dateString));
}
else if(names.getString(i).equals("title")){
setTitle(values.getString(i));
}
}

Just to clarify, as I understand it you are receiving a JSON array of strings which are strings of valid JSON prefixed with the array index and a pipe character?
First, I would suggest contacting the creator of this abomination and lecturing them on violating standards. If they won't listen, talk to their bosses. This kind of thing is unacceptable in my opinion and needs to stop.
Second, I'd suggest doing something like this:
string[] element_strings = JSON.deserialize(WCF_string_result);
object[] elements = new object[element_strings.length];
for(int x = 0; x < elements.length; x++)
{
int pipeIndex = element_strings.indexOf("|");
elements[x] = JSON.deserialize(element_strings[x].substr(pipeIndex + 1));
}
Of course this assumes you have some kind of method for deserializing strings of JSON objects. If you don't I'd recommend using the built in library available in Android:
http://developer.android.com/reference/org/json/package-summary.html

If you want to extract specific value from it using Java8 stream on JSONArray. Then this code will help.
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import java.util.stream.IntStream;
import org.json.JSONArray;
public class JsonArrayTest {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Output - "+ getValue("[{\"id\":\"11\",\"username\":\"ABC\"},{\"id\":\"12\",\"username\":\"ABC\"}]\""));
System.out.println("Output - "+ getValue("[{\"id\":\"13\",\"username\":\"XYZ\"}]\""));
}
private static String getValue(String input) {
JSONArray jsonArray = new JSONArray(input);
return IntStream
.range(0, jsonArray.length()).mapToObj(obj -> jsonArray.getJSONObject(obj))
.filter(filterObj -> filterObj.getString("id") != null && "12".equals(filterObj.getString("id")))
.map(finalObj -> finalObj.getString("username")).collect(Collectors.joining(""));
}
}
Note: This is just an example how can you extract a specific value from JSONArry using stream APIs. You can change the filter condition or drop it according to your requirement.