There was an error in my comp function in the code I have just posted, here is
it after modification:
import std.stdio;
import std.string;
import std.array;
import std.conv;
import std.algorithm;
/*
This program works as follows:
there is a string[] of users with genders and their answers to a multichoice
survey
the program takes a user name as input, the user wants to find other users
who answered at least a number (called similarity factor)
of question as he/she did.
the program then outputs a list of users who are ordered by how similar
their answers to the user, if two users have the same
similarity factor, they are then ordered by name.
*/
void main()
{
string[] members=
[
"BETTY F M A A C C",
"TOM3 M F A D C A",
"TOM M F A D C A",
"SUE F M D D D D",
"ELLEN F M A A C A",
"TOM6 M F A D C A",
"JOE M F A A C A",
"TOM12 M F A D C A",
"ED M F A D D A",
"SALLY F M C D A B",
"MARGE F M A A C C",
"TOM4 M F A D C A",
];
// the form is: "NAME G RG X X X .." where G is gender, RG is requested
gender, X is the answer to a multichoice question
foreach (string s; bestmatch(members,"BETTY",2))
writefln(s);
}
string[] bestmatch(string[] ms, string user, int sf)
{
string[] u,tmp;
foreach (string m; ms)
if (((u=m.split())[0])==user) break;
auto re = appender!(string[]);
auto sa = appender!(int[]);
int s;
foreach (string m; ms)
{
s = 0;
if ((tmp=m.split())[1]==u[2])
{
for (int i = 3; i<u.length; i++)
if (tmp[i]==u[i]) s++;
}
if (s>=sf)
re.put(join([to!(string)(s),tmp[0]]," "));
}
sort!(comp)(re.data);
for (int i = 0; i<re.data.length; i++)
re.data[i] = re.data[i].split()[1];
return re.data;
}
bool comp(string x, string y)
{
writefln("now: %s %s", x, y);
string[] a = x.split(); string[] b = y.split();
int cmp = (to!(int)(a[0])>to!(int)(b[0]));
if (cmp>0)
return 1;
else if (cmp==0 && a[1]<b[1])
return 1;
return 0;
}
