edu.udo.cs.yale.example
Class ExampleFormatter

java.lang.Object
  edu.udo.cs.yale.example.ExampleFormatter

public class ExampleFormatter
extends java.lang.Object

Formats an example as specified by the format string. The dollar sign '$' is an escape character. Squared brackets '[' and ']' have a special meaning. The following escape sequences are interpreted:

$a:

All attributes separated by the default separator

$a[separator]:

All attributes separated by separator

$s[separator][indexSeparator]:

Sparse format. For all non 0 attributes the following strings are concatenated: the column index, the value of indexSeparator, the attribute value. Attributes are separated by separator.

$v[name]:

The value of the attribute with the given name (both regular and special attributes)

$k[index]:

The value of the attribute with the given index in the example set

$l:

The label

$p:

The predicted label

$d:

All prediction confidences for all classes in the form conf(class)=value

$d[class]:

The prediction confidence for the defined class as a simple number

$i:

The id

$w:

The weight

$c:

The cluster

$b:

The batch

$n:

The newline character

$t:

The tabulator character

$$:

The dollar sign

$[:

The '[' character

$]:

The ']' character

Version:

$Id: ExampleFormatter.java,v 2.15 2006/03/27 13:21:58 ingomierswa Exp $

Author:

Simon Fischer, Ingo Mierswa

Nested Class Summary

static interface	ExampleFormatter.FormatCommand Represents one piece of formatting.
static class	ExampleFormatter.SimpleCommand Implements some simple format commands like 'a' for all attributes or 'l' for the label.
static class	ExampleFormatter.TextCommand Returns simply the given text.
static class	ExampleFormatter.ValueCommand Returns the value of an argument which must be an attribute's name.

Field Summary

private ExampleFormatter.FormatCommand[]

formatCommands The commands used subsequently to format the example.

Constructor Summary

ExampleFormatter(ExampleFormatter.FormatCommand[] formatCommands)
Constructs a new ExampleFormatter that executes the given array of formatting commands.

Method Summary

static ExampleFormatter	compile(java.lang.String formatString, ExampleSet exampleSet) Factory method that compiles a format string and creates an instance of ExampleFormatter.
private static void	compile(java.lang.String formatString, ExampleSet exampleSet, java.util.List<ExampleFormatter.FormatCommand> commandList) Adds all commands to the commandList.
java.lang.String	format(Example example) Formats a single example.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

formatCommands

private ExampleFormatter.FormatCommand[] formatCommands

The commands used subsequently to format the example.

Constructor Detail

ExampleFormatter

public ExampleFormatter(ExampleFormatter.FormatCommand[] formatCommands)

Constructs a new ExampleFormatter that executes the given array of formatting commands. The preferred way of creating an instance of ExampleFormatter is to compile(String, ExampleSet) a format string.

Method Detail

compile

public static ExampleFormatter compile(java.lang.String formatString,
                                       ExampleSet exampleSet)

Factory method that compiles a format string and creates an instance of ExampleFormatter.

compile

private static void compile(java.lang.String formatString,
                            ExampleSet exampleSet,
                            java.util.List<ExampleFormatter.FormatCommand> commandList)

Adds all commands to the commandList.

format

public java.lang.String format(Example example)

Formats a single example.