Re: End of String

From:
"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:55:58 GMT
Message-ID:
<yYcSg.35780$cz3.2692@edtnps82>
"Nigel Wade" <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:efbjq8$p74$1@south.jnrs.ja.net...

Even more pointless, but not using length() per your original request :

static int strlen(String str) {
 int i=0;
 try {
   while(true) {
    str.getChar(i);
    i++;
   }
 }
 catch(IndexOutOfBoundsException) {
  return i;
 }
}

Are they enough to meet your requirements?


    I was trying to come up with the "most pointless" way to solve the
requirement, in case Sara persisted.

    Best I came up with is using a recursive method which generates every
single possible string of known length, and checks whether the generated
string matches the provided string.

<pseudoCode>
int getStringLength(String target) {
  int length = 0;
  while(true) {
    if (stringEquals(target, "", length)) {
      return length;
    }
    length++;
  }
}

boolean stringEquals(String target, String prefix, int length) {
  if (length == 0) {
    return target.equals(prefix);
  }
  for (char nextChar : allPossibleCharacters()) {
    if (stringEquals(target, prefix + nextChar, length - 1) {
      return true;
    }
  }
  return false;
}
</pseudoCode>

    - Oliver

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