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);
        }
    }
}

How do I format a number?

By Wayan in Core API, Text Package 0 Comment

If you want to display some numbers that is formatted to a certain pattern, either in a Java Swing application or in a JSP file, you can utilize NumberFormat and DecimalFormat class to give you the format that you want. Here is a small example that will show you how to do it.

In the code snippet below we start by creating a double variable that contains some value. By default, the toString() method of the double data type will print the money value using a scientific number format as it is greater than 10^7 (10,000,000.00). To be able to display the number without scientific number format we can use java.text.DecimalFormat which is a sub class of java.text.NumberFormat.

We create a formatter using DecimalFormat class with a pattern of #0.00. The # symbol means any number but leading zero will not be displayed. The 0 symbol will display the remaining digit and will display as zero if no digit is available.

package org.kodejava.text;

import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import java.text.NumberFormat;

public class DecimalFormatExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // We have some millions money here that we'll format its look.
        double money = 100550000.75;

        // Creates a formatter
        NumberFormat formatter = new DecimalFormat("#0.00");

        // Print the number using scientific number format and using our 
        // defined decimal format pattern above.
        System.out.println(money);
        System.out.println(formatter.format(money));
    }
}

Here is the different result of the code above.

1.0055000075E8
100550000.75

How do I convert string of time to time object?

By Wayan in Core API, Util Package 1 Comment

You want to convert a string representing a time into a time object in Java. As we know that Java represents time information in a class java.util.Date, this class keep information for date and time.

Now if you have a string of time like 15:30:18, you can use a SimpleDateFormat object to parse the string time and return a java.util.Date object. The pattern of the string should be passed to the SimpleDateFormat constructor. In the example below the string is formatted as hh:mm:ss (hour:minute:second).

package org.kodejava.util;

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class StringToTimeExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {        
        // A string of time information
        String time = "15:30:18";

        // Create an instance of SimpleDateFormat with the specified
        // format.
        DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss");
        try {
            // To get the date object from the string just called the 
            // parse method and pass the time string to it. This method 
            // throws ParseException if the time string is invalid. 
            // But remember as we don't pass the date information this 
            // date object will represent the 1st of january 1970.
            Date date = sdf.parse(time);            
            System.out.println("Date and Time: " + date);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

The code snippet above print the following output:

Date and Time: Thu Jan 01 15:30:18 CST 1970

How do I use LineNumberReader class to read file?

By Wayan in Core API, IO 0 Comment

In this example we use LineNumberReader class to read file contents. What we try to do here is to get the line number of the read data. Instead of introducing another variable; an integer for instance; to keep track the line number we can utilize the LineNumberReader class. This class offers the getLineNumber() method to know the current line of the data that is read.

package org.kodejava.io;

import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.LineNumberReader;
import java.util.Objects;

public class LineNumberReaderExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        // We'll read a file called student.csv that contains our
        // student information data.
        String filename = Objects.requireNonNull(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()
                .getResource("student.csv")).getFile();

        // To create the FileReader we can pass in our student data
        // file to the reader. Next we pass the reader into our
        // LineNumberReader class.
        try (FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(filename);
             LineNumberReader lineNumberReader = new LineNumberReader(fileReader)) {
            // If we set the line number of the LineNumberReader here
            // we'll got the line number start from the defined line
            // number + 1

            //lineNumberReader.setLineNumber(400);

            String line;
            while ((line = lineNumberReader.readLine()) != null) {
                // We print out the student data and show what line
                // is currently read by our program.
                System.out.printf("Line Number %s: %s%n", lineNumberReader.getLineNumber(), line);
            }
        }
    }
}

The /resources/student.csv file:

Alice, 7
Bob, 8
Carol, 5
Doe, 6
Earl, 6
Malory, 8

And here is the result of our code snippet above:

Line Number 1: Alice, 7
Line Number 2: Bob, 8
Line Number 3: Carol, 5
Line Number 4: Doe, 6
Line Number 5: Earl, 6
Line Number 6: Malory, 8

How do I get user home directory name?

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

public class UserHomeExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // This is the key that we used to obtain user home directory
        // in the operating system
        String userHome = "user.home";

        // We get the path by getting the system property with the 
        // defined key above.
        String path = System.getProperty(userHome);

        // We print your home path here
        System.out.println("Your Home Path: " + path);
    }
}

On my machine it print something like:

Your Home Path: C:\Users\wsaryada

Or

Your Home Path: /Users/wsaryada