way too hard to explain this in short. please help guys!!

I'm playing around with maps and sets and I've come across something which I cannot do. I'm trying to get the map interestsFans so it looks like:-

"Programming" { "Peter", "Luke" }
"Cycling" { "Peter", "Thomas" }
"Porno" { "Thomas", "Luke" }
ETC...

Code :

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import java.util.*;
 
public class Maps
{
 
 
   public static void mapPlay()
   {
      Map<String, Set<String>> personInterests = new HashMap<String, Set<String>>();
      Set<String> allInterests = new HashSet<String>();
      Set<String> allPeople = new HashSet<String>();
      Map<String, Set<String>> interestFans = new HashMap<String, Set<String>>();
 
      Set<String> interests = new HashSet<String>();
      interests.add("Programming");
      interests.add("Cycling");
      interests.add("Walking");
      interests.add("Cinema");
      personInterests.put("Peter", interests);
 
      interests = new HashSet<String>();
      interests.add("Cinema");
      interests.add("Cycling");
      interests.add("Eating");
      interests.add("Porno");
      personInterests.put("Thomas", interests);
 
      interests = new HashSet<String>();
      interests.add("Porno");
      interests.add("Eating");
      interests.add("Programming");
      interests.add("Walking");
      personInterests.put("Luke", interests);
 
 
      /**
       * Populates the set referenced by allPeople with all
       * the people in PersonInterests.  Also populates the
       * set referenced by allInterests with all the interests in
       * personInterests.
       */
      allPeople = personInterests.keySet();
 
      for (String eachSetValue : personInterests.keySet())
      {
         allInterests.addAll(personInterests.get(eachSetValue) );
      }
 
 
 
      /**
       * Works out which people likes which interests and stores
       * this information in a map.  interests represent
       * the map key and which people like the interests
       * represent the map values.
       */
      for (String eachInterest : allInterests)
      {
         interestFans.put(eachInterest, new TreeSet<String>());
      }
 
      for (String eachPerson : allPeople)
      {
         for (String eachInterest : personInterests.get(eachPerson))
         {
 
            // ** HOW TO ADD THE PERSON NAME TO THE VALUE SET
            // ** OF THE MAP interestFans CORRESPONDING TO CORRECT
            // ** KEY IN interestFans ??
 
         }
      }
 
 
   }
 
}

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The part im actually having problems with is:

Code :

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for (String eachPerson : allPeople)
      {
         for (String eachInterest : personInterests.get(eachPerson))
         {
 
 
            // ** HOW TO ADD THE PERSON NAME TO THE VALUE SET
            // ** OF THE MAP interestFans CORRESPONDING TO CORRECT
            // ** KEY IN interestFans ??
 
         }

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the specifications are:

for each person in allPeople
For each interest in that person’s personInterests
add the person to the set which is the value of that interest in personInterests

im sure lots of you will say you dont understand, and newither do I. I have read over this so many times and it just ties my brain in knots!! im very close to completing the question but I just cant finish it. Any help is much appreciated as I really want to understand this!

Thankyou in advance to anyone able and willing to help.

Code :

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for (String eachPerson : allPeople)
{
 for (String eachInterest : personInterests.get(eachPerson))
{
 
this.allPeople.add(eachPerson);
for (String eachInterest : personInterests.get(eachPerson))
{
   this.allPeople.add(eachInterest );
}

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I thinks :o

shoudn the last line be:

this.personInterests.add(eachInterest );

??

I haven't gone through much of your code to actually solve the asked problem (sorry), but if I understand the problem and code correctly it seems easier to write a specific object - such as Person - wrapping a set in that object to define interests, and if you want to find all the people with common interests create a look up table using a Map - adding Person to a List/Set keyed with the interest (make sure in doing so to override the equals() and hashcode() methods of any custom object placed in a collection like Set or Map)

Hi there, I am working on this question and I'm well and truly stuck on this part:

Quote:

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• For each band stored in allBands create an entry in bandFans with the band
name as key and a new empty set as its value.

• For each person in allPeople

o For each band in that person’s personInterests

add the person to the set which is the value of that band in
bandFans.

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The first two points are working okay (I think) but I just can't seem to figure out how to add the all names into the set (only one currently). This is my code so far:

Code :

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   public void workOutBandFans()
   {
      Set<String>peopleSet = new HashSet<String>();
      for (String band : allBands)
      {
       bandFans.put(band, new HashSet<String>());
      }
      for (String person : allPeople)
      {
         for (String band : personInterests.get(person))
         {
            peopleSet.add(person);
            bandFans.put(band, peopleSet);
 
         }
 
         peopleSet = new HashSet<String>();
      }

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