I could have this done in php in three lines of code but in Java here's what I need to do:
English
Looping through list of words I call a function that returns a HashSet of movie titles that contain that particular word. I want to insert these titles into a HashMap with their value being a counter of how many times this title occured.
(if two words return the same title, that title's value (counter) would be 2)
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for(int i = 0; i < titleWords.length; i++ ) {
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HashSet tempHash = (HashSet) hashtable.get( titleWords[i] );
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// put result into hashmap and increment counter
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Iterator myIt = tempHash.iterator();
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int counter;
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while(myIt.hasNext()) {
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counter = 0;
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String title = (String) myIt.next();
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counter = (int) resultMap.get((String)myIt.next()); //*** ERROR: inconvertible types
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resultMap.put((String)myIt.next(), ++counter);
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}
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}
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That's where it sits now, I tried a few different ways, and obviously they did not work.
Since I can't sort a HashMap, would something else work better? if so, don't bother answering my question with a HashMap, answer it with another list/array implementor that can store key/value pairs.
Thanks for any pointers,
Dan
