我正在寻找一个简单的公共方法或操作符，允许我重复一些字符串n次。我知道我可以使用for循环来写这个，但我希望在必要时避免for循环，并且应该在某个地方存在一个简单的直接方法。
String str = "abc";
String repeated = str.repeat(3);
repeated.equals("abcabcabc");
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当它们不是完全必要的时候，我尽量避免使用for循环，因为:
They add to the number of lines of code even if they are tucked away in another function.
Someone reading my code has to figure out what I am doing in that for loop. Even if it is commented and has meaningful variables names, they still have to make sure it is not doing anything "clever".
Programmers love to put clever things in for loops, even if I write it to "only do what it is intended to do", that does not preclude someone coming along and adding some additional clever "fix".
They are very often easy to get wrong. For loops involving indexes tend to generate off by one bugs.
For loops often reuse the same variables, increasing the chance of really hard to find scoping bugs.
For loops increase the number of places a bug hunter has to look.
如果你只知道输出字符串的长度(它可能不能被输入字符串的长度整除)，那么使用这个方法:
static String repeat(String s, int length) {
return s.length() >= length ? s.substring(0, length) : repeat(s + s, length);
}
使用演示:
for (int i = 0; i < 50; i++)
System.out.println(repeat("_/‾\\", i));
不要使用空s，长度为> 0，因为在这种情况下不可能得到想要的结果。
如果您关心的是速度，那么应该尽可能少地使用内存复制。因此，它需要处理字符数组。
public static String repeatString(String what, int howmany) {
char[] pattern = what.toCharArray();
char[] res = new char[howmany * pattern.length];
int length = pattern.length;
for (int i = 0; i < howmany; i++)
System.arraycopy(pattern, 0, res, i * length, length);
return new String(res);
}
为了测试速度，使用StirngBuilder的一个类似的优化方法如下:
public static String repeatStringSB(String what, int howmany) {
StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder(what.length() * howmany);
for (int i = 0; i < howmany; i++)
out.append(what);
return out.toString();
}
以及测试它的代码:
public static void main(String... args) {
String res;
long time;
for (int j = 0; j < 1000; j++) {
res = repeatString("123", 100000);
res = repeatStringSB("123", 100000);
}
time = System.nanoTime();
res = repeatString("123", 1000000);
time = System.nanoTime() - time;
System.out.println("elapsed repeatString: " + time);
time = System.nanoTime();
res = repeatStringSB("123", 1000000);
time = System.nanoTime() - time;
System.out.println("elapsed repeatStringSB: " + time);
}
下面是我的系统的运行结果:
elapsed repeatString: 6006571
elapsed repeatStringSB: 9064937
注意，for循环测试是为了引入JIT并获得最佳结果。
尽管您不希望使用循环，但我认为您应该使用循环。
String repeatString(String s, int repetitions)
{
if(repetitions < 0) throw SomeException();
else if(s == null) return null;
StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder(s.length() * repetitions);
for(int i = 0; i < repetitions; i++)
stringBuilder.append(s);
return stringBuilder.toString();
}
你不使用for循环的理由并不充分。针对你的批评:
Whatever solution you use will almost certainly be longer than this. Using a pre-built function only tucks it under more covers.
Someone reading your code will have to figure out what you're doing in that non-for-loop. Given that a for-loop is the idiomatic way to do this, it would be much easier to figure out if you did it with a for loop.
Yes someone might add something clever, but by avoiding a for loop you are doing something clever. That's like shooting yourself in the foot intentionally to avoid shooting yourself in the foot by accident.
Off-by-one errors are also mind-numbingly easy to catch with a single test. Given that you should be testing your code, an off-by-one error should be easy to fix and catch. And it's worth noting: the code above does not contain an off-by-one error. For loops are equally easy to get right.
So don't reuse variables. That's not the for-loop's fault.
Again, so does whatever solution you use. And as I noted before; a bug hunter will probably be expecting you to do this with a for loop, so they'll have an easier time finding it if you use a for loop.
