Hi James, Perhaps you could share with us how you're building the crosstabulation map? Somehow, some spacing is introduced, and that would probably in that map creation that this takes place.
Guillaume On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 3:24 PM James McMahon <jsmcmah...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >> >> >> -- Guillaume Laforge Apache Groovy committer Developer Advocate @ Google Cloud Platform Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ Twitter: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge>
