Questions tagged [collections]
Collections APIs provide developers with a set of classes and interfaces that makes it easier to handle collections of objects.
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Breaking a 32-bit value into bytes for an ArrayList
I am very new to Java and its collections and I'm trying to figure out "best" way to populate an ArrayList<Byte> in Java. In particular, I'm trying to take a ...
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Going from IQueryable<IEnumerable<myObj>> to IEnumerable<myObj>
I have a "GetPersonsPerDepartment()" method returning a IQueryable<IEnumerable<Person>> while I'm trying to get a simple ...
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Collections management with many derived elements
I've been told few days ago that using is is a code smell and anti-pattern.
I used it in an game to filter some elements of a collection (the inventory of the ...
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Ring Buffer Implementation in C++14
A ring buffer or circular buffer is a fixed sized queue that advances head and tail pointers in a modulo manner rather than moving the data. Ring buffers are often used in embedded computer design.
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Really easy synchronised access to an IEnumerable without boilerplate code
Often when reading data from a sequence (IEnumerable<T>) in multi-threaded code, a consistent snapshot needs to be taken inside a ...
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Alternating items in a collection
Is there any better way how to mix items in list? In my example: I want to sort list items as male, female, male, ... My solution is probably very time and resource demanding. Can I do it somehow with ...
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Moving elements satisfying a predicate from one container to another
I've implemented a C++ algorithm that moves elements satisfying a given unary predicate from one container into the other, deleting them from the input container.
This is my implementation:
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Time series dataset with temporally enforced object lifetime
The purpose of this class is to have that can maintain data set where the samples contained within the set have an expiry time. Samples are inserted in chronological order. In an attempt to memory ...
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How to connect a propery class/object with a collection (its database class)?
I'm struggling with organizing my code regarding 'best practise'. In particular how I link a class with its collection class.
I've 2 classes:
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Generic Skip list implementation in C++ Version 3
This is a follow up of Non generic Skip List implementation in C++ Version 2
If you don't know what a Skip list is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_list
I tried to incorporate as much ...
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Dependancy Container
I'm currently creating my own microframework for learning purpose and I want to make it more powerful by providing a way to register classes and instantiate them (once) only when needed. So here is my ...
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Non generic Skip List implementation in C++ Version 2
Edit: This code was reworked and repostetd under a new question: Generic Skip list implementation in C++ Version 3
This is a follow up of:
Non generic Skip List implementation in C++
If you don't ...
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General use multi-dimensional container using operator[]
This is a followup to a previous question of mine on same subject.
Context
I want to have a tool that allows to simulate as much as possible a C++ standard container for a multidimensional ...
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Non generic Skip List implementation in C++
Edit: This code was reworked and repostetd under a new question:
Non generic Skip List implementation in C++ Version 2
To sharpen my C++ skills I tried to implement a skip list.
I was quite happy ...
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Summing payments by year using Java Streams
I'm using 1.8.0_162 version of Java and here is my task about stream framework
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Build clusters from connections (virus propagation)
The scenario is the following: There is a list of persons and places where those persons visit. Each person is connected to a single or multiple places. See the picture below, where O[i] represents ...
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List mapping of large data set from file
I have a list of items 116 thousand and my mapping function is taking quite some time to process. I am using the file helpers library to write the CSV to disk but its the for each that is taking ...
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Multi-dimensional container using operator[]
This is a late followup to a previous question of mine on same subject.
Context:
I want to have a tool that allows to use all the C++ goodies (algorithms, for loop on containers, etc.) on a ...
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Wrapper for a raw array so that it can be passed to templates expecting Standard Library containers
I am working with a code base where unfortunately I cannot replace all raw arrays with std::array. The spec provides no guarantee that the memory layout of a ...
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Custom container for iterating over combinations of elements from multiple sets
Motivated by some SO quesitons [1, 2] I made an attempt at implementing a custom container with a bi-directional custom iterator for iterating over all combinations of elements from multiple sets.
I ...
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Achieving a synced collection of objects with NHibernate
I'm working on a WinForms application that can modify objects loaded from a MSSQL server (using NHibernate).
I need to load the entities into a DataGridView, and ...
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Filter queries three orders of magnitude slower than insertions
As part of a C++ library, I'm implementing a filter class for approximate set membership and abundance queries. The filter has two primary operations: ...
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Fast insert unique container
I posted the same question at StackOverflow then I got an advice to post it here.
Original question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49998297/fast-insert-unique-container
I have to store ...
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Fill in workbook with data from another workbook
Followup to this question
I made a macro that will fill in data in a workbook that has 65 (24 are user filled) columns and can go as long as 1500 rows.
The macro can import about 1500 rows and 24 ...
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Finding the lowest possible number of changes to turn one string into another
I've been working on a task: I have two giant strings, both consist of the same characters just scrambled (both consist only capital english letters). The task is to find the lowest possible number of ...
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Fill a new Workbook with info from another workbook
I made a macro that will fill in data in a workbook that has 65 (24 are user filled) columns and can go as long as 1500 rows.
In an ideal scenario, the workbook has a perfect column that could work ...
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C++11 Removable connection from emitter or receiver object
Please review my solution for the following problem. I am interested in:
Maintainability
Usability
Logical correctness
Efficiency
Problem:
It has 1+ objects each in separated thread and between the ...
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Complete ObservableDictionary
In conjunction with a recent question of mine, I found that an ObservableDictionary would be very handy for my situation, so I decided to implement one.
I've ...
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Set, List and Map equality comparison with Lambda check
I'd like to be able to compare two objects with different equality checks. This should work if they're in a Set, List or ...
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Example of adding STL iterator support to custom collection class
I'm trying to create an example of a custom collection with an API meeting the requirements of STL iterator templates, as a learning experience.
The collection used here, a ring buffer, is merely a ...
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C++ container — variable byte coded numbers list
I'm writing a container for unsigned integers, which uses variable byte coding. It works but some decisions I took look ugly so I would be glad if you gave me some hints for improving the design.
I ...
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Create numerical-key array from existing string-key array, with a given string-key as first item
I have an array of available languages for my website, with a short ISO country code as the key for each language. I need to create a new array that contains the same info, but with numerical keys and ...
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Iterator of Container of Container
Based on this question I though I would pull together an iterator that iterated over a container of containers.
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Returning containers from function - C++ [closed]
I've been trying to implement a few interfaces for processing data. And most of the time I do new of container and return a smart pointer to this container. ...
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Python JIT container type
This is a follow on from this review. Where I am attempting to improve the performance of my rest client.
I have created an container type (as suggested in my previous post) that lazily instantiates ...
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Find combinations of items in a nested collection
It's a very typical problem that I come across here and there. Imagine that you have a collection of items of any type, and sometimes items are collections themselves; you then need to "expand" them ...
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Given a list containing dates and the amount spent on each date, display the total amount spent per month
I had an interview yesterday where I was asked to write a function that would take in a list containing a date and the amount of money spent on that date, and to output the total amount spent per ...
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Custom dictionary class for reading and writing json value to a file
Is my implementation good? The program works as planned, but I wonder if some parts of the code can be made cleaner or more efficient. The file output looks like this:
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Scala type matching map
I was working with some complicated generics system, and I found the need to make an abstraction for a typesafe mapping between K[T] and V[T] where T is the same for individual pairs.
In the case ...
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Map with case insensitive get, remove and containsKey
I am looking for a Map implementation (with String keys and any generic type for values) that would support getting, removing ...
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Getting single element or throwing one of two exceptions
Sometimes I need to get a single thing from a collection but I'm not very happy with the Single extension. It does not differentiate between empty and more than one ...
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VBA: Loop all .xlsx files in a folder and produce a list of worksheets and workbooks contained therein
I pieced together this code in answer to the following OP post on Stack Overflow: Get worksheet Names of All .xlsx files in a folder
Task:
The OP basically wanted to loop all .xlsx files in a folder ...
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Vector replacer
I rolled an own vector-like construct with improved performance and got it reviewed. Here is the updated version.
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Vector-like custom container with improved insert performance
I rolled a little container class (just for couriosity) which was meant to be able as a vector replacement in some cases.
(Whoever wonders about the lack of move semantic etc, I just left it out due ...
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General FizzBuzz in Scala
I wanted to create a FizzBuzz implementation that both showcases the strengths of Scala (Functional paradigm and collections) and is general enough to anticipate the typical interview follow-up ...
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Array Wrapper Class
I’ve wrote a small array wrapper class which mimics the built-in Collection for adding and retrieving items. Once the object is created, you set the array capacity and that would not change.
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Optimise many namedtuple assignment statements [closed]
I'd just like to know if there's a way I can reduce the number of namedtuple assignment statements in the code below. The actual program has over 60 assignment ...
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Generic Comparator
I have tried to make a generic comparator with the use of reflection, but I am not sure how efficient it is or if it is the right way to do so Also, I don't know how it will handle dates.
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Flattening a map into a list of records
In my everyday work I'm trying to move away from traditional iterating over collections to a more Java 8 streams-like behavior. I'm currently working on a project where I have a collection defined as:
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