枚举 swift 字符串时获取 "String.Index"

Getting "String.Index" while enumerating swift string

目前我们迭代字符串如下:

let greeting = "Hello"
for (intIndex, char) in greeting.enumerated() {
    let currentIndex = greeting.index(greeting.startIndex, offsetBy: intIndex)
    let indexAfterCurrentIndex = greeting.index(after: currentIndex)
    print(greeting[indexAfterCurrentIndex...])
}

我觉得写下面的代码是多余的。

let currentIndex = greeting.index(greeting.startIndex, offsetBy: intIndex)

Is there other way to get directly "String.Index" while iterating?

像这样

let greeting = "Hello"
for (stringIndex, char) in greeting.enumeratedXXX() {
    let indexAfterCurrentIndex = greeting.index(after: stringIndex)
    print(greeting[indexAfterCurrentIndex...])
}

为什么不将 currentIndex 递增 1?

let greeting = "Hello"
for (stringIndex, char) in greeting.enumerated() {
    let currentIndex = stringIndex
    let nextIndex = currentIndex + 1
    print(nextIndex)
}

没有 built-in 功能。您可以将其包装在自定义迭代器中,但随后您只能将相同类型的计算封装在不同的地方,所以这不是答案:)

代码复杂度

但是,您可以提高当前代码的性能:

greeting.index(greeting.startIndex, offsetBy: intIndex)
  • 这将为每次循环迭代计算从 startIndex 到结果索引的索引。
  • 使用 index(_:offsetBy:) 的索引计算实际上只是另一个循环本身,它 +1 计算每个索引。没有 O(1) 方法可以 "compute" 索引;它是通过 O(n)
  • 中的循环找到的

因此您自己的外循环与 O(n) 线性相关 n 次迭代,每个字符一个。

然后使用内部循环计算索引意味着有 1+2+3+4+5+6+...n = (n^2 + n)/2 次迭代,其中 n 是本例中的 intIndex

这意味着该算法的复杂度为 *handwaiving* roundabout O(n + n^2)。二次方部分有问题!

更好的方法

您可以将复杂度降低到每次迭代 2 个操作,或 O(2n)。只需将之前计算的索引保存在内存中并自己 +1,避免从头开始重新计算。

代码如下:

let greeting = "Hello"
var index = greeting.startIndex
for char in greeting {
    let indexAfterCurrentIndex = greeting.index(after: index)
    print(greeting[indexAfterCurrentIndex...])
    index = indexAfterCurrentIndex
}

仍然不是一个简单的 built-in 解决方案,但您也可以包装这个更高效的算法,然后开始!

extension String {
    func forEachCharacterWithIndex(iterator: (String.Index, Character) -> Void) {
        var currIndex = self.startIndex
        for char in self {
            iterator(currIndex, char)
            currIndex = self.index(after: currIndex)
        }
    }
}

let greeting = "Hello"
greeting.forEachCharacterWithIndex { (index, char) in
    let indexAfterCurrentIndex = greeting.index(after: index)
    print(greeting[indexAfterCurrentIndex...])
}

如果您需要字符串索引,那么您可以枚举 greeting.indices:

let greeting = "Hello"
for index in greeting.indices {
    // ...
}

如果您需要每个字符及其索引,那么您可以并行枚举字符串和索引:

let greeting = "Hello"
for (char, currentIndex) in zip(greeting, greeting.indices) {
    let indexAfterCurrentIndex = greeting.index(after: currentIndex)
    print(char, "-", greeting[indexAfterCurrentIndex...])
}

输出:

H - ello
e - llo
l - lo
l - o
o -

一个更简单的变体是

let greeting = "Hello"
for (char, nextIndex) in zip(greeting, greeting.indices.dropFirst()) {
    print(char, "-", greeting[nextIndex...])
}

产生 几乎 相同的结果,只是没有最后 character/index 对:

H - ello
e - llo
l - lo
l - o