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Best way to compare items in a container?


TheRealMcrafter

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1. Get a list of items for the two containers that you want to compare.

2. Sort the lists of items with a well-defined ordering (lexigraphically by name, etc).

3. Compare the lists (using a loop of some sort).

 

There are more efficient ways, but this way is straightforward and easy to code.

 

[spoiler=An alternative]

1. Make a copy of container B.

2. For every item in container A, remove it from the copy of B.

3. If you try to remove an item and it's not there, then A and B aren't equal.

4. At the end, if there are still items remaining in the copy of B, then A and B aren't equal.

 

 

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You wouldn't have to. The only information you need in order to determine if two containers have the same items is

1. Do they contain the same items?

2. If they both contain an item, do they contain the same amount of that item?

 

The algorithms I gave effectively check for both of these. You don't actually need to know anything about empty slots. (Unless you specifically want to compare them, in which case I misunderstood the question.)

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Basically, I have 2 types of fuel rods (items) that go into the slots (reactor). If there is only "Uranium" in the container (reactor), then return true. If there is only "Plutonium" in the container (reactor), then return true. If there is a mix of "Uranium" and "Plutonium" in the container (reactor), then return false.

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Oh, I thought you had two containers and you wanted to see if they had the same items.

 

It turns out that you have one container, and you want to see if it contains one type of item or not.

 

[spoiler=If you only need to consider uranium and plutonium]

1. Create two booleans,

hasUranium

and

hasPlutonium

.

2. Loop through the inventory contents, if you see uranium, set

hasUranium

to true. Do the same for plutonium.

3. At the end, return

hasUranium != hasPlutonium

. (You can also use "^," the xor symbol in Java, which does the same thing.)

 

Note that this will return true if the container is empty. You can easily modify it so that it returns false in this case.

 

 

 

[spoiler=If you need to consider many item types]

1. Get the first item in your container, store it in a variable,

firstItem

.

2. Loop through the inventory contents, see if every other item has the same item type as first item.

3. If any result from 2 yields false, then there are multiple types of items in your container.

 

Again, it's pretty easy to add in a case for an empty container.

 

 

 

Sorry for the confusion.

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