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Commonly Used Special Cases in JAVA

This document discusses common special cases when using strings in Java including case-insensitive comparison, trimming leading and trailing spaces, checking string length, checking for substrings, and parsing numeric values from strings.

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Commonly Used Special Cases in JAVA

This document discusses common special cases when using strings in Java including case-insensitive comparison, trimming leading and trailing spaces, checking string length, checking for substrings, and parsing numeric values from strings.

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Commonly used Special Cases in JAVA

1. Case-insensitive comparison:
String text1 = "hello";
String text2 = "HeLLo";

// Compare two strings ignoring case


if (text1.equalsIgnoreCase(text2)) {
System.out.println("The strings are equal, ignoring case.");
} else {
System.out.println("The strings are not equal, considering case.");
}
The `equalsIgnoreCase()` method compares two strings, ignoring the case. In this
example, it will print "The strings are equal, ignoring case." because both `text1` and
`text2` have the same characters, regardless of case.

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2. Trimming leading and trailing spaces:
String input = " Hello, World! ";

// Trim leading and trailing spaces from the string


String trimmed = input.trim();

System.out.println("Original input: \"" + input + "\"");


System.out.println("Trimmed input: \"" + trimmed + "\"");

The `trim()` method removes any leading and trailing white spaces from a string. In this
example, it will print:

Original input: " Hello, World! "


Trimmed input: "Hello, World!"

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3. String length check:
String input = "Hello";

// Check if the string has a length greater than 5


if (input.length() > 5) {
System.out.println("The string has more than 5 characters.");
} else {
System.out.println("The string has 5 or fewer characters.");
}

The `length()` method returns the number of characters in a string. In this example, it
will print "The string has 5 or fewer characters." because the length of `input` is 5.

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4. Checking if a string contains a substring:
String text = "Hello, world!";

// Check if the string contains the substring "world"


if (text.contains("world")) {
System.out.println("The string contains the word \"world\".");
} else {
System.out.println("The string does not contain the word \"world\".");
}
The `contains()` method checks if a string contains a specified substring. In this example,
it will print "The string contains the word \"world\"." because `text` contains the word
"world".

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5. Parsing numeric values:
String numberStr = "42";

try {
int number = Integer.parseInt(numberStr);
System.out.println("Parsed number: " + number);
} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
System.out.println("Error: Invalid number format.");
}

The `parseInt()` method parses a string into an integer. In this example, it will print
"Parsed number: 42" because `numberStr` contains the valid integer "42". If
`numberStr` were "abc" instead, it would catch a `NumberFormatException` and print
"Error: Invalid number format."

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