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Lutm_campaign-branding&uutm-medium-banner&utm source-baeldung.com&utm.content-baeldung.incontent =) 1, Overview There are many ways to count the number of occurrences of a char ina String in Java In this quick tutorial, well focus on a few examples of how to count characters — first with the core Java library and then with other libraries and frameworks such as Spring and Guava. Further reading: Using indexOf to Find All Occurrences of a Word in a String (/java-indexof-find- string-occurrences) Learn how to solve the ‘needle ina haystack’ problem by using the incexOf method to find all occurrences of a word in a larger text sting. Read more (/java-indexof-fnd-string-occurrences) —- Guava CharMatcher (/guava-string-charmatcher) Use the Guava CharMatcherto work with Strings - remove spe armong other super useful API, 3 chars, validate, trim. collapse, replace and count Read more (/quava-string-charmatcher) —- String Processing with Apache Commons Lang 3 (/string-processing-commons- lang) ‘Quick intro to working with Strings with the Apache Commons library and StringUtls Road more (/string-processing-commons-lang) —> 2. Using Core Java Lib 2.1, Imperative Approach Some developers may prefer to use core Java. There are many ways for counting the number of accurrences of a char ina String. Lets start with a simple/naive approach: ‘elephant; oO String sonestring car sonechar Sat couns = 95 For (int 4 = 0; 4 < somestes HF (Sonestring.charae(i) ‘sonechar) > , assertequals(2, count); Not surprisingly this will work, but there are better ways t hitpsilwwwbaeldung.convjava-count-chars ano4r112023 20:35 Count Occurrences of a Char ina Strng | Baeldung = BoC) Optimisation des charges de travail Optimisation des charges de travail SAP SAP avec le cloud avec le cloud a thitps/ads freestarcom/? 2.2, Using Recursion less obvious but stillinteresting solution is to use recursion private static int useRecursiont String sonesteing, char searchedChar, Ant index) { 4f (index > someString. length) { return 8; ) Ant count = soneString-charAt(index) == searehedchar 7 1 + 0) return count + useRecursient Ssonestring, searchedChar, index + 1)5 \We can invoke this recursive method in the following way: useRecursionToCountChars(‘elephant’ ' 0} 2.3. Using Regular Expressions Another way would be to use regular expressions: Pattern patter Watcher matcher Sat count = 9; write (nateher Find) Pattern. compste(*(telo") pattern matcher (“elephant y assertequals(2, count); Just note that this solution is technically correct but sub-optimal. as its overkill to use the very powerful regular ‘expressions to solve such a simple problem as finding the number of occurrences of a character in a string. 2.4. Using Java 8 Features New features available in Java 8 can be very helpful here. Cy eam how fo prepare fortis change vat . 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