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Thread: Need help with this algorithm

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    Default Need help with this algorithm

    I need a Java algorithm that converts a string of numbers into text. It is related to how a phone keypad works where pressing 2 three times creates the letter "c" or pressing 4 one time creates the letter "g". For example a string of numbers "44335557075557777" should decode to "help pls" where 0 equates to a space.


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    Default Re: Need help with this algorithm

    Can you make a table of keypresses to character?
    So far you've shown:
    222 > 'c'
    4 > 'g'
    0 > ' '

    Can you show how "44335557075557777" decodes to "help pls"?
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    Default Re: Need help with this algorithm

    Can you show how "44335557075557777" decodes to "help pls"?
    I think it was decoded the way how the cellphone writes a text (not the querty phone)

    this is the table:
    Key Num: values:
    1 I thinks it has special characters
    2 abc
    3 def
    4 ghi
    5 jkl
    6 mno
    7 pqrs
    8 tuv
    9 wxyz
    0 <space>

    44 > h
    33 > e
    555 > l
    7 > p
    0 > <space>
    7 > p
    555 > l
    7777 > s

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    Default Re: Need help with this algorithm

    Firstly you can extract out the consecutive occurence of numeric entry in your text and then you may have a hashmap in which for each combination of numeric values, you can have a corresponding alphabet. This means you will have 26 values in the hashmap corresponding to each alphabet, then a blank space for 0 and "/" for 1.

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    Default Re: Need help with this algorithm

    you can also try using hashmap with Integer(0-9) as key and String as value and then store the 10 key value pair as you have specified. also have two arrays key[] and numOfTaps[]. so when you press something like "44335557075557777" , extract each key pressed in key[] array and the num of times it is pressed in numOfTaps[].
    for the above example
    key[]={4,3,5,7,0,7,5,7}
    and numOfTaps={2,2,3,1,1,1,3,4}
    then the String (say str) associated with key "key[i]" in your hashmap. (key[0] is 4 so it will have "ghi" as value)
    and then get the character as str[numOfTaps[i]] (so u will get "h" for i=0)

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