How do I reverse a string by word?

In the other examples on this website you might have seen how to reverse a string using StringBuffer, StringUtils from Apache Commons Lang library or using the CharacterIterator.

In this example you’ll see another way that you can use to reverse a string by word. Here we use the StringTokenizer and the Stack class.

package org.kodejava.util;

import java.util.Stack;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

public class ReverseStringByWord {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // The string that we'll reverse
        String text = "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz";

        // We use StringTokenize to get each word of the string. You might try
        // to use the String.split() method if you want.
        StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(text, " ");

        // To reverse it we can use the Stack class, which implements the LIFO
        // (last-in-first-out).
        Stack<String> stack = new Stack<>();
        while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
            stack.push(st.nextToken());
        }

        // Print each word in reverse order
        while (!stack.isEmpty()) {
            System.out.print(stack.pop() + " ");
        }
    }
}

How do I remove trailing white space from a string?

The trim() method of a String class removes both leading and trailing white space from a string. In this example we use a regular expression to remove only the trailing white spaces from a string.

package org.kodejava.lang;

public class TrailingSpace {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String text = "     tattarrattat     ";
        System.out.println("Original      = " + text);
        System.out.println("text.length() = " + text.length());

        // Using a regular expression to remove only the trailing white space in
        // a string
        text = text.replaceAll("\\s+$", "");
        System.out.println("Result        = " + text);
        System.out.println("text.length() = " + text.length());
    }
}
Original      =      tattarrattat     
text.length() = 22
Result        =      tattarrattat
text.length() = 17

How do I remove leading white space from a string?

The trim() method of a String class removes both leading and trailing white space from a string. In this example we use a regular expression to remove only the leading white spaces from a string.

package org.kodejava.lang;

public class LeadingSpace {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String text = "     tattarrattat     ";
        System.out.println("Original      = " + text);
        System.out.println("text.length() = " + text.length());

        // Using regular expression to remove only the leading white
        // space in string
        text = text.replaceAll("^\\s+", "");
        System.out.println("Result        = " + text);
        System.out.println("text.length() = " + text.length());
    }
}
Original      =      tattarrattat     
text.length() = 22
Result        = tattarrattat     
text.length() = 17

How do I replace characters in string?

package org.kodejava.lang;

public class StringReplace {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String text = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";
        System.out.println("Before: " + text);

        // The replace method replace all occurrences of character
        // 'o' with 'u' and returns a new string object.
        text = text.replace('o', 'u');
        System.out.println("After : " + text);
    }
}

The result of the code snippet:

Before: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
After : The quick bruwn fux jumps uver the lazy dug

How do I copy char array to string?

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