i have a string containing nested repeating patterns, for example:
String pattern1 = "1234";
String pattern2 = "5678";
String patternscombined = "1234|1234|5678|9"//added | for reading pleasure
String pattern = (pattern1 + pattern1 + pattern2 + "9")
+(pattern1 + pattern1 + pattern2 + "9")
+(pattern1 + pattern1 + pattern2 + "9")
String result = "1234|1234|5678|9|1234|1234|56";
As you can see in the above example, the result got cut off. But when knowing the repeating patterns, you can predict, what could come next.
Now to my question:
How can i predict the next repetitions of this pattern, to get a resulting string like:
String predictedresult = "1234|1234|5678|9|1234|1234|5678|9|1234|1234|5678|9";
Patterns will be smaller that 10 characters, the predicted result will be smaller than 1000 characters.
I am only receiving the cutoff result string and a pattern recognition program is already implemented and working. In the above example, i would have result
, pattern1
, pattern2
and patternscombined
.
EDIT:
I have found a solution working for me:
import java.util.Arrays;
public class LRS {
// return the longest common prefix of s and t
public static String lcp(String s, String t) {
int n = Math.min(s.length(), t.length());
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
if (s.charAt(i) != t.charAt(i))
return s.substring(0, i);
}
return s.substring(0, n);
}
// return the longest repeated string in s
public static String lrs(String s) {
// form the N suffixes
int N = s.length();
String[] suffixes = new String[N];
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
suffixes[i] = s.substring(i, N);
}
// sort them
Arrays.sort(suffixes);
// find longest repeated substring by comparing adjacent sorted suffixes
String lrs = "";
for (int i = 0; i < N - 1; i++) {
String x = lcp(suffixes[i], suffixes[i + 1]);
if (x.length() > lrs.length())
lrs = x;
}
return lrs;
}
public static int startingRepeats(final String haystack, final String needle)
{
String s = haystack;
final int len = needle.length();
if(len == 0){
return 0;
}
int count = 0;
while (s.startsWith(needle)) {
count++;
s = s.substring(len);
}
return count;
}
public static String lrscutoff(String s){
String lrs = s;
int length = s.length();
for (int i = length; i > 0; i--) {
String x = lrs(s.substring(0, i));
if (startingRepeats(s, x) < 10 &&
startingRepeats(s, x) > startingRepeats(s, lrs)){
lrs = x;
}
}
return lrs;
}
// read in text, replacing all consecutive whitespace with a single space
// then compute longest repeated substring
public static void main(String[] args) {
long time = System.nanoTime();
long timemilis = System.currentTimeMillis();
String s = "12341234567891234123456789123412345";
String repeat = s;
while(repeat.length() > 0){
System.out.println("-------------------------");
String repeat2 = lrscutoff(repeat);
System.out.println("'" + repeat + "'");
int count = startingRepeats(repeat, repeat2);
String rest = repeat.substring(count*repeat2.length());
System.out.println("predicted: (rest ='" + rest + "')" );
while(count > 0){
System.out.print("'" + repeat2 + "' + ");
count--;
}
if(repeat.equals(repeat2)){
System.out.println("''");
break;
}
if(rest!="" && repeat2.contains(rest)){
System.out.println("'" + repeat2 + "'");
}else{
System.out.println("'" + rest + "'");
}
repeat = repeat2;
}
System.out.println("Time: (nano+millis):");
System.out.println(System.nanoTime()-time);
System.out.println(System.currentTimeMillis()-timemilis);
}
}