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 convert Array to Collection?

By Wayan in Core API, Util Package 0 Comment 
package org.kodejava.util;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

public class ArrayToListExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Creates an array of object, in this case we create an
        // Integer array.
        Integer[] numbers = {1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55};

        // Convert the created array above to collection, in this
        // example we convert it to a List.
        List<Integer> list = Arrays.asList(numbers);

        // We've got a list of our array here and iterate it.
        for (Integer number : list) {
            System.out.print(number + ", ");
        }
    }
}

How do I split a string?

By Wayan in Core API, Lang Package 0 Comment

Prior to Java 1.4 we use java.util.StringTokenizer class to split a tokenized string, for example a comma separated string. Starting from Java 1.4 and later the java.lang.String class introduce a String.split(String regex) method that simplify this process.

Below is a code snippet how to do it.

package org.kodejava.lang;

import java.util.Arrays;

public class StringSplit {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String data = "1,Diego Maradona,Footballer,Argentina";
        String[] items = data.split(",");

        // Iterates the array to print it out.
        for (String item : items) {
            System.out.println("item = " + item);
        }

        // Or simply use Arrays.toString() when print it out.
        System.out.println("item = " + Arrays.toString(items));
    }
}

The result of the code snippet:

item = 1
item = Diego Maradona
item = Footballer
item = Argentina
item = [1, Diego Maradona, Footballer, Argentina]

How do I sort an array of objects?

By Wayan in Core API, Util Package 0 Comment

In this example we are going to learn how to sort an array of objects. We start by using an array of String objects as can be seen in the code snippet below. We sort the contents of the array using Arrays.sort() method and print the sorted result. It was really simple.

String names[] = {"Bob", "Mallory", "Alice", "Carol"};
Arrays.sort(names);
System.out.println("Names = " + Arrays.toString(names));

Next, we will sort an array of our own object. It is a bit different compared to sorting an array of primitives. The first rule is we need our object to implements the Comparable interface. This interface have one contract we need to implement, the compareTo() contract.

The basic rule of the compareTo() method is to return 0 when objects value are equals, 1 if this object value is greater and -1 if this object value is smaller. In the Person class below we simply call the String object compareTo() method. See the Person class below for more details.

package org.kodejava.util.support;

public class Person implements Comparable<Person> {
    private String name;

    public Person(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public int compareTo(Person person) {
        return this.name.compareTo(person.name);
    }

    public String toString() {
        return name;
    }
}

In the snippet below we create four Person objects. We sort the Person object based on their name using the Arrays.sort() method and print out the array values.

Person persons[] = new Person[4];
persons[0] = new Person("Bob");
persons[1] = new Person("Mallory");
persons[2] = new Person("Alice");
persons[3] = new Person("Carol");
Arrays.sort(persons);
System.out.println("Persons = " + Arrays.toString(persons));

This is the main class where you can run all the snippet above:

package org.kodejava.util;

import org.kodejava.util.support.Person;

import java.util.Arrays;

public class ObjectSortExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String[] names = {"Bob", "Mallory", "Alice", "Carol"};
        Arrays.sort(names);
        System.out.println("Names = " + Arrays.toString(names));

        Person[] persons = new Person[4];
        persons[0] = new Person("Bob");
        persons[1] = new Person("Mallory");
        persons[2] = new Person("Alice");
        persons[3] = new Person("Carol");
        Arrays.sort(persons);
        System.out.println("Persons = " + Arrays.toString(persons));
    }
}

This snippet will print the following output:

Names = [Alice, Bob, Carol, Mallory]
Persons = [Alice, Bob, Carol, Mallory]

How do I sort elements of an array?

By Wayan in Core API, Util Package 0 Comment 
package org.kodejava.util;

import java.util.Arrays;

public class ArraySortExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // An array of random numbers
        int[] numbers = {3, 1, 8, 34, 1, 2, 13, 89, 5, 21, 55};
        System.out.println("Before: " + Arrays.toString(numbers));

        // We need to sort these array elements into a correct order
        // from the smallest to the greatest. We will use the Arrays
        // class on java.utils package to do the sort. The sort
        // method of this class are overloaded, so they can take
        // other type of array as well such as byte[], long[],
        // float[], Object[].
        Arrays.sort(numbers);
        System.out.println("After : " + Arrays.toString(numbers));

        // We can also do the sort only for the specified range of
        // array elements.
        float[] money = {1.05f, 99.8f, 3f, 4.55f, 7.23f, 6.50f};
        Arrays.sort(money, 3, money.length);

        // Here we display the sort result, the first and the second
        // element of the array is not included in the sort process.
        System.out.println("Money : " + Arrays.toString(money));
    }
}

And here are the results:

Before: [3, 1, 8, 34, 1, 2, 13, 89, 5, 21, 55]
After : [1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89]
Money : [1.05, 99.8, 3.0, 4.55, 6.5, 7.23]