Given a roman numeral, convert it to an integer.
Input is guaranteed to be within the range from 1 to 3999.
public class Solution {
/**
* The algorithm is kind of greedy algorithm: cut the string into substrings such that
* the length of each substring is as large as possible.<br>
* @param s -string, Roman expression of an integer
* @return int
* @author Averill Zheng
* @version 2014-06-22
* @since JDk 1.7
*/
public int romanToInt(String s) {
int sum = 0;
Map<String, Integer> roman2Int = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
int[] units = new int[]{1000,900,500,400,100,90,50,40,10,9,5,4,1};
String[] romanNumeral = new String[]{"M","CM", "D", "CD", "C", "XC", "L",
"XL", "X", "IX", "V", "IV", "I"};
for(int i = 0; i < 13; ++i)
roman2Int.put(romanNumeral[i], units[i]);
int length = s.length();
int i = 0;
while(i < length){
if(i + 1 < length && (s.substring(i, i + 2).equals("CM") || s.substring(i, i + 2).equals("CD") ||
s.substring(i, i + 2).equals("XC") || s.substring(i, i + 2).equals("XL") ||
s.substring(i, i + 2).equals("IX") || s.substring(i, i + 2).equals("IV"))){
sum += roman2Int.get(s.substring(i, i + 2));
i += 2;
}
else{
sum += roman2Int.get(s.substring(i, i + 1));
i += 1;
}
}
return sum;
}
}