Thank you Rachel. I will look at employing .charAt(0) on the key. I do believe it is indeed a string. To your point, I suspect I am comparing a character to a string. What of the need to clean up the keys - stripping them of any extraneous spaces so I get just the character itself in the key string? Anyone know a way to work through the map and trim keys?
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 7:57 AM Rachel Greenham <rac...@merus.eu> wrote: > Are you sure you’re not comparing Strings to Characters at some point? > Going @TypeChecked might reveal if and where that’s happening... > > -- > Rachel Greenham > rac...@merus.eu > > On 22 Feb 2023, at 11:58, James McMahon <jsmcmah...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a Groovy list that holds the unicode representation of select > foreign language characters, something like this simplified version: > > def myList = ['*\u00E4*','\u00D6','\u00F8'] > > I have built myself a Groovy map that is the crosstabulation of characters > by count in an incoming document, so my map looks something like this: > > crossTab = ["a" : "16736", "b" : "192", " * ä *" : "18"] > > The foreign language characters in this map that are in the set of keys > often have extra whitespace around them, and for certain languages there is > a weird "right to left" thing going on that I don't quite fully understand. > > My objective: iterate through my list, return true if the element from the > list is found as a key in the map, and return the count - the map value for > that key - if the key is found. My problem: my lookup is failing to return > any hits right now. I know that some of these foreign language characters > are in my data. I suspect my lookup is failing because the keys are not > clean representations of the foreign language characters. > > How do I modify my keys using Groovy to trim them of leading and trailing > whitespace? > > Since my element from my list is expressed as unicode, how would I convert > the trimmed key representation to unicode using Groovy? > > Thank you in advance for any help. > > >
