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Strings, which are widely used in Java programming, are a sequence of characters. In the Java programming language, strings are objects.The Java platform provides the String class to create and manipulate strings.[h=2]Creating Strings:[/thanks]The most direct way to create a string is to write:
String greeting = "Hello world!";Whenever it encounters a string literal in your code, the compiler creates a String object with its value in this case, "Hello world!'.As with any other object, you can create String objects by using the new keyword and a constructor. The String class has eleven constructors that allow you to provide the initial value of the string using different sources, such as an array of characters.
public class StringDemo{ public static void main(String args[]){ char[] helloArray = { 'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', '.'}; String helloString = new String(helloArray); System.out.println( helloString ); }}This would produce the following result:
hello.Note: The String class is immutable, so that once it is created a String object cannot be changed. If there is a necessity to make a lot of modifications to Strings of characters, then you should use Log in or register to view links Classes.[h=2]String Length:[/thanks]Methods used to obtain information about an object are known as accessor methods. One accessor method that you can use with strings is the length() method, which returns the number of characters contained in the string object.After the following two lines of code have been executed, len equals 17:
public class StringDemo { public static void main(String args[]) { String palindrome = "Dot saw I was Tod"; int len = palindrome.length(); System.out.println( "String Length is : " + len ); }}This would produce the following result:
String Length is : 17[h=2]Concatenating Strings:[/thanks]The String class includes a method for concatenating two strings:
string1.concat(string2);This returns a new string that is string1 with string2 added to it at the end. You can also use the concat() method with string literals, as in:
"My name is ".concat("Zara");Strings are more commonly concatenated with the + operator, as in:
"Hello," + " world" + "!"which results in:
"Hello, world!"Let us look at the following example:
public class StringDemo { public static void main(String args[]) { String string1 = "saw I was "; System.out.println("Dot " + string1 + "Tod"); }}This would produce the following result:
Dot saw I was Tod[h=2]Creating Format Strings:[/thanks]You have printf() and format() methods to print output with formatted numbers. The String class has an equivalent class method, format(), that returns a String object rather than a PrintStream object.Using String's static format() method allows you to create a formatted string that you can reuse, as opposed to a one-time print statement. For example, instead of:
System.out.printf("The value of the float variable is " + "%f, while the value of the integer " + "variable is %d, and the string " + "is %s", floatVar, intVar, stringVar);you can write:
String fs;fs = String.format("The value of the float variable is " + "%f, while the value of the integer " + "variable is %d, and the string " + "is %s", floatVar, intVar, stringVar);System.out.println(fs);[h=2]String Methods:[/thanks]Here is the list of methods supported by String class:
String greeting = "Hello world!";Whenever it encounters a string literal in your code, the compiler creates a String object with its value in this case, "Hello world!'.As with any other object, you can create String objects by using the new keyword and a constructor. The String class has eleven constructors that allow you to provide the initial value of the string using different sources, such as an array of characters.
public class StringDemo{ public static void main(String args[]){ char[] helloArray = { 'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', '.'}; String helloString = new String(helloArray); System.out.println( helloString ); }}This would produce the following result:
hello.Note: The String class is immutable, so that once it is created a String object cannot be changed. If there is a necessity to make a lot of modifications to Strings of characters, then you should use Log in or register to view links Classes.[h=2]String Length:[/thanks]Methods used to obtain information about an object are known as accessor methods. One accessor method that you can use with strings is the length() method, which returns the number of characters contained in the string object.After the following two lines of code have been executed, len equals 17:
public class StringDemo { public static void main(String args[]) { String palindrome = "Dot saw I was Tod"; int len = palindrome.length(); System.out.println( "String Length is : " + len ); }}This would produce the following result:
String Length is : 17[h=2]Concatenating Strings:[/thanks]The String class includes a method for concatenating two strings:
string1.concat(string2);This returns a new string that is string1 with string2 added to it at the end. You can also use the concat() method with string literals, as in:
"My name is ".concat("Zara");Strings are more commonly concatenated with the + operator, as in:
"Hello," + " world" + "!"which results in:
"Hello, world!"Let us look at the following example:
public class StringDemo { public static void main(String args[]) { String string1 = "saw I was "; System.out.println("Dot " + string1 + "Tod"); }}This would produce the following result:
Dot saw I was Tod[h=2]Creating Format Strings:[/thanks]You have printf() and format() methods to print output with formatted numbers. The String class has an equivalent class method, format(), that returns a String object rather than a PrintStream object.Using String's static format() method allows you to create a formatted string that you can reuse, as opposed to a one-time print statement. For example, instead of:
System.out.printf("The value of the float variable is " + "%f, while the value of the integer " + "variable is %d, and the string " + "is %s", floatVar, intVar, stringVar);you can write:
String fs;fs = String.format("The value of the float variable is " + "%f, while the value of the integer " + "variable is %d, and the string " + "is %s", floatVar, intVar, stringVar);System.out.println(fs);[h=2]String Methods:[/thanks]Here is the list of methods supported by String class:
| SN | Methods with Description |
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| 1 | Log in or register to view links Returns the character at the specified index. |
| 2 | Log in or register to view links Compares this String to another Object. |
| 3 | Log in or register to view links Compares two strings lexicographically. |
| 4 | Log in or register to view links Compares two strings lexicographically, ignoring case differences. |
| 5 | Log in or register to view links Concatenates the specified string to the end of this string. |
| 6 | Log in or register to view links Returns true if and only if this String represents the same sequence of characters as the specified StringBuffer. |
| 7 | Log in or register to view links Returns a String that represents the character sequence in the array specified. |
| 8 | Log in or register to view links Returns a String that represents the character sequence in the array specified. |
| 9 | Log in or register to view links Tests if this string ends with the specified suffix. |
| 10 | Log in or register to view links Compares this string to the specified object. |
| 11 | Log in or register to view links Compares this String to another String, ignoring case considerations. |
| 12 | Log in or register to view links Encodes this String into a sequence of bytes using the platform's default charset, storing the result into a new byte array. |
| 13 | Log in or register to view links Encodes this String into a sequence of bytes using the named charset, storing the result into a new byte array. |
| 14 | Log in or register to view links Copies characters from this string into the destination character array. |
| 15 | Log in or register to view links Returns a hash code for this string. |
| 16 | Log in or register to view links Returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the specified character. |
| 17 | Log in or register to view links Returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the specified character, starting the search at the specified index. |
| 18 | Log in or register to view links Returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the specified substring. |
| 19 | Log in or register to view links Returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the specified substring, starting at the specified index. |
| 20 | Log in or register to view links Returns a canonical representation for the string object. |
| 21 | Log in or register to view links Returns the index within this string of the last occurrence of the specified character. |
| 22 | Log in or register to view links Returns the index within this string of the last occurrence of the specified character, searching backward starting at the specified index. |
| 23 | Log in or register to view links Returns the index within this string of the rightmost occurrence of the specified substring. |
| 24 | Log in or register to view links Returns the index within this string of the last occurrence of the specified substring, searching backward starting at the specified index. |
| 25 | Log in or register to view links Returns the length of this string. |
| 26 | Log in or register to view links Tells whether or not this string matches the given regular expression. |
| 27 | Log in or register to view links Tests if two string regions are equal. |
| 28 | Log in or register to view links Tests if two string regions are equal. |
| 29 | Log in or register to view links Returns a new string resulting from replacing all occurrences of oldChar in this string with newChar. |
| 30 | Log in or register to view links Replaces each substring of this string that matches the given regular expression with the given replacement. |
| 31 | Log in or register to view links Replaces the first substring of this string that matches the given regular expression with the given replacement. |
| 32 | Log in or register to view links Splits this string around matches of the given regular expression. |
| 33 | Log in or register to view links Splits this string around matches of the given regular expression. |
| 34 | Log in or register to view links Tests if this string starts with the specified prefix. |
| 35 | Log in or register to view links Tests if this string starts with the specified prefix beginning a specified index. |
| 36 | Log in or register to view links Returns a new character sequence that is a subsequence of this sequence. |
| 37 | Log in or register to view links Returns a new string that is a substring of this string. |
| 38 | Log in or register to view links Returns a new string that is a substring of this string. |
| 39 | Log in or register to view links Converts this string to a new character array. |
| 40 | Log in or register to view links Converts all of the characters in this String to lower case using the rules of the default locale. |
| 41 | Log in or register to view links Converts all of the characters in this String to lower case using the rules of the given Locale. |
| 42 | Log in or register to view links This object (which is already a string!) is itself returned. |
| 43 | Log in or register to view links Converts all of the characters in this String to upper case using the rules of the default locale. |
| 44 | Log in or register to view links Converts all of the characters in this String to upper case using the rules of the given Locale. |
| 45 | Log in or register to view links Returns a copy of the string, with leading and trailing whitespace omitted. |
| 46 | Log in or register to view links Returns the string representation of the passed data type argument. |
