[Newbies] Collection in Smalltalk

[Cédrick Béler]

have a looks at method name containing split
use the method finder
or
alt+shift+w when split selected...

You should be able to find ;)

Cédrick

2008/9/25 Alex Chi <alex_chi99 at yahoo.com>:
> Thanks. I'll try to start with the indexing table for each character first.
> Anyway do you know how to split string based on more than 1 character, for
> example I want to split string based on some punctuation. I have tried using
> tokenBasedOn, but still can not figured out how to use it for more than 1
> separator.
>
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> Hi,
>
> As a start you can do:
>
> alphabet := $a to: $z.
> coll indexOf: $c    returns 4
>
> to have both upper and lower case:
> alphabet indexOf: yourCaracter asLowercase
>
> then you iterate on your string collection and add each result...
>
> not sure about the $ word, but it could be once you detect the sum to be
> 100...
>
> hth :)
>
> Cédrick
>
>
> but maybe you could reverse the collection so as to have ($a -> 1  ...
> $z -> 26)
>
> 2008/9/24 Alex Chi <alex_chi99 at yahoo.com>:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I am just beginner in Smaltalk and I have some problem with collection in
>> smalltalk.
>> For this problem I have to define the value of an alphabetic character
>> based
>> on its location in the alphabet. So 'a' and  'A' each have value 1, 'b'
>> and
>> 'B' each have 2, etc. Non-alphabetic characters can be considered to have
>> value 0.
>> The value of a word is the sum of the value of all its characters. So
>> 'Smalltalk' has value 101 and 'abc' has value 6.
>> A dollar word is a word whose value is 100.  I want to add a method to the
>> String class that returns all the dollar words in the string.
>>
>> So for example if the input is 'SmallTalk' the result is ('SmallTlk'
>> 'SmllTlk').
>>
>> Please kindly help me guys. Really appreciate your help.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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