Jackson Mac Low’s Diastic Algorithm
January 22nd, 2006
I have been trying to implement Jackson Mac Low’s diastic readings[link] in Java for an exercise this week. I managed to work the algorithm partly, I can choose a phrase before compile and spit out the words according to it that my program reads from an input file. Couple of things are missing though;
Texts to be read :
Handling Errors UsingExceptions from Sun Docs
Regular Expressions from Sun Docs
Java Fundamental Class Reference I/O, Input Output Operations in Java
Introduction to the java.util.regex Package – Beginning Regular Expressions by Andrew Watt (through NYU Library)
// Bugs: There is this repetition of the i after
// it finds the phrase character, could be a problem
// if the phrase has double char like "book".
// also i doesn't goes up to the last element.
// *******************************************************
// to do: use lines according to the marks.
// make it look more like a poem.
// *******************************************************
import java.io.*;
import java.nio.*;
import java.nio.channels.*;
public class Diasticc {
public static void main (String[] args) throws IOException {
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(args[0]);
FileChannel fc = fis.getChannel();
ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.allocate((int)fc.size());
fc.read(bb);
fc.close();
String content = new String(bb.array());
String phrase="poem";
String[] word = content.split(" ");
int i = 0;
for (int k=0; k < phrase.length(); k++) {
for ( i = i + 1; i<word.length; i++) {
if(i >= word.length-1) {
i = 0;
}
//System.out.println(i);
if(word[i].length() > k) {
if(word[i].charAt(k) == phrase.charAt(k)) {
// System.out.println(i + " " + word[i]);
// System.out.println(k + " " + phrase.charAt(k));
System.out.println(word[i]);
break;
}
}
}
}
}
}