Package es.upm.etsisi.cf4j.util

Class Search

java.lang.Object

es.upm.etsisi.cf4j.util.Search

public class Search
extends Object

This class contains useful search methods.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
Search()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static int[]	findTopN(double[] values, int n)	Returns the indexes of the biggest n elements of the values array.
static int	getIndex(int[] array, int value)	Gets efficiently the userIndex of an element in an array of integers

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Search

public Search()

Method Detail

getIndex

public static int getIndex(int[] array,
                           int value)

Gets efficiently the userIndex of an element in an array of integers

Parameters:

array - Array of integers sorted from lowest to highest

value - Value which calculates the position

Returns:

Index of the item or -1 if not found

findTopN

public static int[] findTopN(double[] values,
                             int n)

Returns the indexes of the biggest n elements of the values array. If the values arrays is smaller than N, the returned array is completed with -1. The NaN values are ignored.

Parameters:

values - Array to search its top n elements

n - Number of elements to obtain

Returns:

Indexes of values sorted by higher to lower