Thanks David. I think you understood exactly what I want. The String.split() was also what I had in mind, but I don't know how to do a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters.
Do you have an example of such action? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Hunter Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 14:50 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Not entirely sure if i understand what you want to do, but you could use a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters. String.split() breaks a string into an array of strings by using a specified delimiter which could be a " " space in this situation, so each word is an element in an array. Apply this process to both your strings and you end up with two arrays which should be easy to compare words and cycle through all the elements. Hope that helps, but I've probably misunderstood what you want to do! David > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:46:58 +0200 > Subject: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way > > Hi List, > > I am trying to find how to best compare 2 strings(word by word). > I have 2 texts, one fully written and one abbreviated. > The texts have exactly the same amount of words and they are in the same > order. > So in the text field one word is highlighted. > The user has to fill in the abbreviation of the text(word by word). > The user fills in his "translation" and ENTERS to confirm. > And then the app has to compare the words. > > He can choose to practice from abbreviation to fully written words or vice > versa. > > So what is the best way to do this, keeping in mind that special characters > (like .,:;! space) must not be judged. > > Any idea is welcome. > > TIA > Cor > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now_______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.851 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3020 - datum van uitgifte: 07/21/10 20:36:00 _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
