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The document discusses the Character class in Java, which represents single characters. It describes methods like isDigit, isLetter, toLowerCase, and toUpperCase for testing and converting character properties. Examples are provided to demonstrate using these methods to work with characters.

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Java Lesson9-1

The document discusses the Character class in Java, which represents single characters. It describes methods like isDigit, isLetter, toLowerCase, and toUpperCase for testing and converting character properties. Examples are provided to demonstrate using these methods to work with characters.

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Java Programming : Character

Dr. May Phyo Thu


Lecturer

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Objectives

• To understand Character class and use them to develop programs.


• To know the Character class contains the methods isDigit, isLetter,
isLetterOrDigit, isLowerCase, isUpperCase, toLowerCase and toUpperCase

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Character Class

• In Java, single characters are represented using the data type char.
• Character constants are written as symbols enclosed in single quotes.
• Characters are stored in a computer memory using some form of
encoding.
• ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information
Interchange, is one of the document coding schemes widely used today.
• Java uses Unicode Worldwide Character Standard (Unicode) , which
includes ASCII, for representing char constants.

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ASCII Code for Commonly Used Characters

Chara Code Value in Unicode


cters Decimal Value char letter = 'A'; (ASCII)
char numChar = '4'; (ASCII)
‘0’ to \u0030 to \
48 to 57
‘9’ u0039
‘A’ to \u0041 to \
65 to 90
‘Z’ u005A
char letter = '\u0041'; (Unicode)
‘a’ to \u0061 to \ char numChar = '\u0034'; (Unicode)
97 to 122
‘z’ u007A

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Methods in the Character Class

Method Description
isDigit(ch) Returns ture if the specified character is a digit.
isLetter(ch) Returns ture if the specified character is a letter.
isLetterOrDigit(ch) Returns ture if the specified character is a letter or digit.

isLowerCase(ch) Returns ture if the specified character is a lowercase


letter.
isUpperCase(ch) Returns ture if the specified character is a uppercase
letter.
toLowCase(ch) Returns the lowercase of the specified character.

toUpperCase(ch) Returns the uppercase of the specified character.

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isLetter(char) Method

public class CharacterTest {


public static void main(String[] args)
{
char ch = 'A';

boolean b1 = Character.isLetter(ch);

System.out.println(ch + " is letter: " + b1);


}
}

A is letter: true
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isDigit(char) Method

public class CharacterTest {


public static void main(String[] args)
{
char ch = ‘A';

boolean b1 = Character.isDigit(ch);

System.out.println(ch + " is digit: " + b1);

}
}

A is digit: false

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isLetterOrDigit(char)Method

public class CharacterTest {


public static void main(String[] args)
{
char ch = 'A';

boolean b1 = Character.isLetterOrDigit(ch);

System.out.println(ch + " is letter or digit: " + b1);

}
}

A is letter or digit: true

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isLowerCase(char) Method

public class CharacterTest {


public static void main(String[] args){

char ch = 'A';

boolean b1 = Character.isLowerCase(ch);

System.out.println(ch + "is lowercase letter: " + b1);


}
}

A is lowercase letter: false

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isUpperCase(char)Method

public class CharacterTest {


public static void main(String[] args){

char ch = 'A';

boolean b1 = Character.isUpperCase(ch);

System.out.println(ch + " is uppercase letter: " + b1);


}
}

A is uppercase letter: true

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isWhitespace(char) method

public class CharacterTest {


public static void main(String[] args){

char ch = ‘A ';

boolean b1 = Character.isWhitespace(ch);

System.out.println("' ' is a white space character: " + b1);


}
}

A is a white space character: false

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toUpperCase(char) Method

public class CharacterTest {


public static void main(String[] args){

char ch = ‘A';

char ch3 = Character.toUpperCase(ch);

System.out.println(ch + " is converted to " + ch3);


}
}

A is converted to A

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toLowerCase(char) Method

public class CharacterTest {


public static void main(String[] args){

char ch = 'A';

char ch3 = Character.toLowerCase(ch);

System.out.println(ch + " is converted to " + ch3);


}
}

A is converted to a

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Reading a Character from the Console

1 public class StringTest {


2 public static void main(String[] args) {

3 Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);


4 System.out.print("Enter a character: ");
5
String s1 = input.next();
6 char ch = s1.charAt(0);
7 System.out.println("The character entered is " + ch);
8 }
9}

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Summary

• The Character class contains the methods isDigit, isLetter, isLetterOrDigit,


• isLowerCase, isUpperCase for testing whether a character is a digit, letter,
lowercase, and uppercase.
• It also contains the toLowerCase and toUpperCase methods for returning a
lowercase or uppercase letter.

Next Topic : String

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