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Lecture 3.1 - Java Strings and Characters

Java characters and strings can represent text data. A character is a single letter or symbol represented by a character literal in single quotes. Strings are collections of characters surrounded by double quotes. Methods like length(), indexOf(), and toUpperCase() can retrieve information from and manipulate string values. Numbers can be converted to strings and vice versa using methods like Integer.parseInt() and Double.toString().

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Lecture 3.1 - Java Strings and Characters

Java characters and strings can represent text data. A character is a single letter or symbol represented by a character literal in single quotes. Strings are collections of characters surrounded by double quotes. Methods like length(), indexOf(), and toUpperCase() can retrieve information from and manipulate string values. Numbers can be converted to strings and vice versa using methods like Integer.parseInt() and Double.toString().

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Java Characters and Strings

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Character Type
 A character data type represents a single
character.

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Character Type
 A character literal is enclosed in single
quotation marks.

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Comparing and Testing
Characters

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Character Class Methods
 Java provides the following methods in the
Character class for testing characters

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Example

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Reading a Character from the
Console
 To read a character from the console, use
the nextLine() method to read a string and
then invoke the charAt(0) method on the
string to return a character.
 For example, the following code reads a
character from the keyboard:

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Java Strings
 Strings are used for storing text.

 A String variable contains a collection of


characters surrounded by double quotes:

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Example

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String Length
 A String in Java is actually an object,
which contain methods that can perform
certain operations on strings.

 For example, the length of a string can be


found with the length() method:

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Example

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More String Methods
 toUpperCase() and toLowerCase()

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Finding a String in a String
 The indexOf() method returns the index
(the position) of the first occurrence of a
specified text in a string (including
whitespace):
 Java counts positions from zero.

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String Concatenation
 The + operator can be used between strings
to add them together to make a new string.
 This is called concatenation:

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More String Methods

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Reading a String from the
Console
 To read a string from the console, invoke
the next() method on a Scanner object.
 For example, the following code reads three
strings from the keyboard:

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nextLine()
 The next() method reads a string that ends
with a whitespace character.
 You can use the nextLine() method to read
an entire line of text.
 The nextLine() method reads a string that
ends with the Enter key pressed.
 For example, the following statements read
a line of text.

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Comparing Strings

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Obtaining Substrings

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Finding a Character or a
Substring in a String

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Conversion between Strings and
Numbers
 You can convert a numeric string into a
number.
 To convert a string into an int value, use the
Integer.parseInt method, as follows:

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 To convert a string into a double value, use
the Double.parseDouble method, as
follows:

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Special Characters

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 The sequence \" inserts a double quote in a
string:

 The sequence \' inserts a single quote in a


string:

 The sequence \\ inserts a backslash in a


string:

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Six other escape sequences are
valid in Java:

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Adding Numbers and Strings

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Adding Two Numbers

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Adding Two Strings

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Add a Number and a String

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