Re: Streaks!
Kai-Uwe Bux wrote:
curiousEngine wrote:
a program that reads in a sequence of positive integers and prints out
the
longest streak of the same value. eg:
2 6 4 3 3 2 3 2 2 2 2 6 6 6 1 6 6 6
Streak of 4 2's in a row.
int main(){
int inputInteger, prevInteger, streak(1), streakInteger;
cout << "Enter positive integers (end by negative integer) "<<endl;
do{
cin >> inputInteger;
if (prevInteger == inputInteger){
streak++;
streakInteger = inputInteger;
}
prevInteger = inputInteger;
}while(inputInteger > 0);
cout << streak<<"of"<<streakInteger;
How to determine the longest streak???
Hint: You could have a
std::map< int, unsigned int > the_longest_run;
so that
the_longest_run[ i ]
will always equal the lengths of the longest streak of the value i in the
sequence as read so far (you update that map each time you read a new
integer).
Maybe think about a std::multimap? I remember when I did this a long
time ago for fun in HP Basic I ran a test with with something like,
2 2 4 4 4 1 1 2 2 4 4 4 9 9 9
as data.
I also found it useful to keep track of where each run started, so maybe
std::multimap< int, std::pair<unsigned int, unsigned int> >?
LR
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