• helxi (39/39) Mar 16 2017 I was looking for ways to find the largest common substring
• thedeemon (14/19) Mar 16 2017 Sure, it's just a hash table, its key type may not even have any
• XavierAP (4/6) Mar 16 2017 Either use auto or if needed size_t. As Thedeemon says this is an

helxi <brucewayneshit gmail.com> writes:

I was looking for ways to find the largest common substring 
between two given substrings and have learnt
1. .length is of type ulong
2. writing string[int] will not give me a sorted array
3. ulong cannot be sorted by sorted

What's the trick to sort the associative array by their keys?

Code snippet:
....

import std.stdio;

//find the largest substring of the two strings
void main(string[] args){

     string str1 = args[1];
     string str2 = args[2];

     string[ulong] commons;

     //is a char from str1[n] == str2[n]?
     //is the char from str1[n+1] == str2[n+1]?

     for (int i = 0; i < str1.length; i++){
         for (int j = 0; j < str2.length; j++){
             if (str2[j] == str1[i]){
                 string current = ""~str1[i];
                 for (int a = 1; (a+i < str1.length && a+j < 
str2.length); a++){
                     if(str2[a+j] == str1[a+i]){
                         current ~= str1[a+i];
                     }
                 }
                 commons[current.length] = current;
             }
         }
     }
     writeln(commons); //[4:"asdf", 2:"df", 1:"f", 3:"sdf"]
     //writeln(commons[commons.keys.max]); <-won't work, no max 
for ulong[]
     writeln(commons[commons.keys[0]]); //asdf
     //but can't guarantee the largest value is the first key
}

---
$./main asdf asdfasdfc
[4:"asdf", 2:"df", 1:"f", 3:"sdf"]

thedeemon <dlang thedeemon.com> writes:

On Thursday, 16 March 2017 at 16:02:13 UTC, helxi wrote:
 I was looking for ways to find the largest common substring 
 between two given substrings and have learnt
 1. .length is of type ulong

Only when compiling to 64 bits. On 32-bit target it's different.

 2. writing string[int] will not give me a sorted array

Sure, it's just a hash table, its key type may not even have any 
ordering, not be comparable.

 What's the trick to sort the associative array by their keys?

If you need the max key value you can just write
auto k = commons.byKey.maxElement;
so that commons[k] will give you your longest string.
(byKey returns a range of keys, maxElement is a function from 
std.algorithm)

You can use .keys property to get an array of keys of associative 
array so you can sort them if you need.

Btw in your case you don't need an array if you're really 
interested in longest substring, just have a single string 
variable and update it when current candidate is longer.

XavierAP <n3minis-git yahoo.es> writes:

On Thursday, 16 March 2017 at 16:02:13 UTC, helxi wrote:
 
 1. .length is of type ulong

Either use auto or if needed size_t. As Thedeemon says this is an 
alias of ulong on 64-bit and uint on 32.

https://dlang.org/spec/hash-map.html