Progress bar

I have a list of words(maybe consist of 250000) where I would like to remove the plural form of all the word ending with s. While I am doing that, I have to dispplay a progress bar on the screen.

So this is what I have so far. However,

 for iword=1:length(wordbank)

if ~isempty(wordbank{iword})&& strcmp(wordbank{iword}(end), 's') no_plurals=no_plurals+1; wordbank2{iword} = wordbank{iword}(1:(end-1));

       progBar=(iword/(length(wordbank)))*100;
    end
fprintf('%d\n',progBar);

however, my program only show the end result of the process, which is 100% and not incrementing the value while processing from 1% to 100%. Can you help me fix this? Thank you.

Answer 1

[Naz]

put

fprintf('%d\n',progBar);

inside the loop

Answer 2

[Jan]

Cleaned a little bit:

fprintf('    ');
fmt = [char([8,8,8,8]), '%3d%%'];
singular = 0;  % Nicer than no_plural
nword = length(wordbank);
wordbank2 = cell(1, nword);
update = 1;
for iword = 1:nword
  word = wordbank{iword};
  if ~isempty(word) && word(end) == 's'
    singular = singular + 1;
    wordbank2{iword} = word(1:(end-1));
    progBar = 100 * iword / nword;
    if progBar > update
      fprintf(fmt, update);
      drawnow;
      update = round(progBar) + 1;
    end
  end
end

EDITED: overwrite the percentage string

But there are much faster methods. E.g. see FEX: strncmpr.

index     = strncmpr(wordbank, 's', 1);
wordbank2 = wordbank(~index);

The timings (Matlab 2009a, Win7, 250'000 words with 6 ot 7 characters):

 Loop with progress display:    2.0 sec
 Loop without progress display: 0.8 sec
 strncmpr:                      0.02 sec

Are you sure you want to waste the most time for updating the progress display?

[NUR KHAIRUNNISA rahimi]

so I have tried this, and this what came out

loading the word % 4

loading the word % 4

loading the word % 4

loading the word % 16

loading the word % 16

loading the word % 16

loading the word % 28

loading the word % 28

loading the word % 36

loading the word % 40

loading the word % 40

loading the word % 40

loading the word % 52

loading the word % 52

loading the word % 52

loading the word % 64

loading the word % 68

loading the word % 68

loading the word % 68

loading the word % 80

loading the word % 80

loading the word % 88

loading the word % 92

loading the word % 96

loading the word % 96

the statement doubles at certain point am I am not sue why that happen. Actually the way I want to do it is not to print each number out, its more like

loading the word % 4

and then it increases to

loading the word % 16 or incrementing in the same line, and not exactly printing the same line over and over again.

[Jan]

If you copy and paste my program, you do not get this output. Therefore I cannot know, how your out is created.

[NUR KHAIRUNNISA rahimi]

I know it will take more time to do the progress display but it is a requirement in the program I am writing. I have no choice but to include it.

Alright, I tried to include these lines in my code according to my program

progBar = 100 * iword / nword;

if progBar > update

fprintf('%d %%\n', update);

drawnow;

update = round(progBar) + 1;

end

and this what came out

5 %

LOAD WORD BANK

Loading word bank: none....started

Loading word bank: sample_bank_small_awords.

Successfully loaded 25 words from the word bank file

Removing invalid words..4 words were successfully removed.

Removing duplicate words and sorting...done

Removed 2 duplicate words

Removed 2 plural word

Building word indices and calculating beginning letter counts...done

Calculating word length counts...done

Final word count:23

Press ENTER

LOAD WORD BANK

Loading word bank: none....started

Loading word bank: sample_bank_small_awords.

Successfully loaded 25 words from the word bank file

Removing invalid words..4 words were successfully removed.

Removing duplicate words and sorting...done

Removed 2 duplicate words

Removed 2 plural word

Building word indices and calculating beginning letter counts...done

Calculating word length counts...done

Final word count:23

Press ENTER

LOAD WORD BANK

Loading word bank: none....started

Loading word bank: sample_bank_small_awords.

Successfully loaded 25 words from the word bank file

Removing invalid words..4 words were successfully removed.

Removing duplicate words and sorting...done

Removed 2 duplicate words

Removed 2 plural word

Building word indices and calculating beginning letter counts...done

Calculating word length counts...done

Final word count:23

Press ENTER

17 %

LOAD WORD BANK

Loading word bank: none....started

Loading word bank: sample_bank_small_awords.

Successfully loaded 25 words from the word bank file

Removing invalid words..4 words were successfully removed.

Removing duplicate words and sorting...done

Removed 3 duplicate words

Removed 3 plural word

Building word indices and calculating beginning letter counts...done

Calculating word length counts...done

Final word count:22

Press ENTER

from what I can see, it is not doing what I'd like it to do though.

[Jan]

I've inserted some code to overwrite the percentage string inplace.

I do not know, why your program is not doing, what you expect. But I do neither know the program nor what you expect. Perhaps you want to explain both? But as far as I can see, the original question is answered.

Answer 3

[Sameer Kumthekar]

Hi , I think you can use waitbar something like this..

h = waitbar(0,'Removing the plural form of all the words...Please wait..!');

steps = 100; for step = 1:steps code here h = waitbar(step/steps,sprintf('%d%%',step)); end close(h);

Please check once! Sameer K