Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit4.readnews.com!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Andreas Leitgeb" Subject: Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given Message-ID: <501AC32A.55935.calajapr@time.synchro.net> X-Comment-To: Andreas Leitgeb Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer In-Reply-To: <501AC32A.55934.calajapr@time.synchro.net> References: <501AC32A.55934.calajapr@time.synchro.net> X-FTN-AREA: COMP.LANG.JAVA.PROGRAMMER X-FTN-MSGID: 1:261/38 75e250bf X-FTN-REPLY: 1:261/38 e782ac74 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.16a-Win32 NewsLink 1.98] Lines: 19 Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:11:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.21.70.65 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1343934718 69.21.70.65 (Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:11:58 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:11:58 CDT Organization: tds.net Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:16974 To: Andreas Leitgeb From: Andreas Leitgeb Andreas Leitgeb wrote: > I've got an approach like the following, but I'm not entirely > happy with it... It took me about an hour to compose that previous post, and not only did a bug still hide in it ("map" instead of "m_map"), but also: only five minutes after posting, it occurred to me that I could also look at TreeMap's methods, rather than only at SortedMap's, and thereby stumbled over the (new in 1.6) interface NavigableMap. PS: return m_map.floorEntry(k).getValue(); // :-) Case closed. --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1 * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38) --- Synchronet 3.16a-Win32 NewsLink 1.98 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24