How do I count the number of occurrences of a char in a String?

By Wayan in Core API, Lang Package 0 Comment

This example show you how to count the number of a character occurrences in a string. We show two ways to do it, using the String.replaceAll(String regex, String replace) method and creating a loop that check every char in the String and count the matched char.

package org.kodejava.lang;

public class CharCounter {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String text = "a,b,c,c,e,f,g,g,g,g,h";

        // Use the CharCounter.countCharOccurrences() method to count.
        int numberOfLetterC = CharCounter.countCharOccurrences(text, 'c');
        System.out.println("Letter c = " + numberOfLetterC);

        // Other solution is to use the String.replaceAll() method. We'll
        // replace the chars other than the counted char with an empty string.
        // To get the char occurrences we count the length of the remaining
        // string.
        int numberOfComma = text.replaceAll("[^,]", "").length();
        System.out.println("Comma    = " + numberOfComma);

        int numberOfLetterG = text.replaceAll("[^g]", "").length();
        System.out.println("Letter g = " + numberOfLetterG);
    }

    /**
     * Count number of specified char occurrences in the specified string.
     */
    private static int countCharOccurrences(String source, char target) {
        int counter = 0;

        // Loop through the string and increment the counter if the
        // target character found in the string. 
        for (int i = 0; i < source.length(); i++) {
            if (source.charAt(i) == target) {
                counter++;
            }
        }
        return counter;
    }
}

How do I copy char array to string?

By Wayan in Core API, Lang Package 0 Comment 
package org.kodejava.lang;

public class CharArrayCopyExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        char[] data = {'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j'};

        // Copy all value in the char array and create a new string out of it.
        String text = String.valueOf(data);
        System.out.println(text);

        // Copy a sub array from the char array and create a new string. The
        // following line will just copy 5 characters starting from array index
        // of 3. If the element copied is outside the array index an
        // IndexOutOfBoundsException will be thrown.
        text = String.copyValueOf(data, 3, 5);
        System.out.println(text);
    }
}

The result:

abcdefghij
defgh

How do I convert string to char array?

By Wayan in Core API, Lang Package 0 Comment

Here we have a small class that convert a string literal into an array, a character array. To do this we can simply use String.toCharArray() method.

package org.kodejava.lang;

public class StringToArrayExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // We have a string literal that contains the tag line of this blog.
        String literal = "Kode Java - Learn Java by Examples";

        // Now we want to convert or divided it into a small array of char.
        // To do this we can simply used String.toCharArray() method. This
        // method splits the string into an array of characters.
        char[] temp = literal.toCharArray();

        // Here we just iterate the char array and print it to our console.
        for (char c : temp) {
            System.out.print(c);
        }
    }
}