count « character « Java Data Type Q&A





1. How do I count the number of occurrences of a char in a String?    stackoverflow.com

I have the string

a.b.c.d
I want to count the occurrences of '.' in an idiomatic way, preferably a one-liner. (Previously I had expressed this constraint as "without a loop", in case you're ...

2. Counting lines, words, characters and top ten words?    stackoverflow.com

Hi I'm pretty new to Stack Overflow so I hope that I'm doing this correctly and that someone out there has the answer I need. I'm currently coding a program in Java ...

3. Counting a certain character in a String (Java)    stackoverflow.com

String a="(Yeahhhh) I have finally made it to the (top)"; Given above String, there are 4 of '(' and ')' altogether. My idea of counting that is by utilizing String.charAt method. However, this ...

4. Count words, java    stackoverflow.com

I want to count words. I use the methods hasNextChar and getChar. The sentence may contain all kind of chars. Here's my code:

        boolean ...

5. Count occurrences of each unique character    stackoverflow.com

How to find the number of occurrence of every unique character in a String? You can use at most one loop. please post your solution, thanks.

6. Counting characters in java    stackoverflow.com

I don't know how to insert a line of code that counts the numbers entered in a box that pops up. Basically I can't enter more than 5 numbers. ...

7. Simple way to count character occurences in a string    stackoverflow.com

Is there a simple way (instread of traversing manually all the string, or loop for indexOf) in order to find how many times, a character appears in a string? Say we have ...

8. how to find duplicate characters in a String and count the number of occurances    stackoverflow.com

I am searching the net for this , didn't find anything related Exmple i have a String "java" ,as there are two a's repeated . But i dont want to use ...

9. counting frequency of characters in a string    stackoverflow.com

I need to write some kind of loop that can count the frequency of each letter in a string. For example: "aasjjikkk" would count 2 'a', 1 's', 2 'j', 1 ...





10. How should I count the number of occurrences of a character at the beginning of a string in Java    stackoverflow.com

I have a string similar to this ,,,foo,bar and I need to count the amount of "," at the beginning of the string in java any ideas?

11. to count the no. of times a character occurs in a string    coderanch.com

Hi Guru, Try the following. int countNumberOfTimes( String str, char letter ) { int numberOfTimes = 0; // // Convert incoming string to character array. // char[] chars = str.toCharArray(); // // Loop through all letters comparing them to the given one. // for( int i = 0; i < chars.length; ++i ) { if( chars[i] == letter ) { ++numberOfTimes; ...

12. to count the no. of times a character occurs in a string    coderanch.com

Hmmmm.... No, guru, I care about your Java education too much to spoil it by giving you a fish instead of teaching you to fish. If you're wary about coding in Java, as I know I was nine months ago, I would definitely recommend JavaRanch's own set of exercises at the "Cattle Drive". You will be more comfortable with coding Java ...

13. Count similar characters in a String    coderanch.com

You could * travel through the String char-per-char, * use the char you have in hand as a key to a Hashmap * and store the tally for this key as value in the Hashmap But i'm sure there are a million other possibilities What do the other cowboys think ? J.

14. counting chars in a string    coderanch.com

don't know about shorter or faster, but this seems to work OK class Testing { int[] chars = new int[128]; public Testing() { int maxChar = 0; int maxCharIndex = 0; String line = "aabcdadbcaefgdhi"; for(int x = 0, y = line.length(); x < y; x++) { chars[line.charAt(x)]++; } for(int x = 0, y = chars.length; x < y; x++) { ...

15. A program to count no of characters in String    coderanch.com

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - ...

16. To count the occurences of all the characters in a string    coderanch.com

hi , here is the piece of code that i have written for counting the occurences of all the characters that are there in the string .however the loop runs again for the character which has been counted. class Arry { public static void main(String[] args) { String test = new String ("aabacbdabcvd"); int i = 0 ; int j = ...





18. using methods and counting uppercase characters    coderanch.com

I am trying to write a code that will count the uppercase characters. Java says that I am missing a return statement. I have no idea why?? Thank you for all your help public class test { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("please enter phrase to count uppercase letters"); Scanner keyboard = new Scanner (System.in); String phrase = keyboard.nextLine(); System.out.println(countUppercase(phrase)); ...

19. How to count and scan the number of characters in a line?    coderanch.com

Hi, I'm trying to use file line/token processing to read the number of lines and characters, and determine the longest line, then print the text of the longest line. I have the number of lines down, but I'm having trouble with the other three things. Is there a nextChar() method, like the nextInt() one? It is a static method that takes ...

20. Counting char in String    java-forums.org

Hello all, Just seeking some advice in reference to a homework problem I have for my Java 101 class. Basically it accepts a String as a parameter, and returns the number of times character 'A' is displayed. I can not seem to get the method countA down.. num = countA(length, String1, a); public static String countA(int length, String String1,char a) { ...

21. Character Count    java-forums.org

Hi there, Im in the middle of doing something, while trawling through the Java API and any related forum threads i haven't found anything useful. Basically i need to count the number of characters in a line from a file. The file is already saved line by line in an array so hopefully it will just be a method to count ...

22. Char Count Issue    java-forums.org

Hi all, I'm trying to count characters in a file that is read in and then added together. Here is my code: Java Code: import java.io.File; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.util.Scanner; public class Stats { public static void main(String[] args) { File file = new File(args[0]); Scanner in = null; try { in = new Scanner(file); } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { e.printStackTrace(); ...

23. Counting chars read each minute, infinite loop    java-forums.org

Hi again, I have a problem which I do not know how to solve. Making a user-friendly program that counts how many letters(a-z or A-Z) the user types each minute, prints it on the screen, starts over in an infinite counting loop. As it is supposed to be user friendly I would want an easy way to quit the program? Suggestions ...

24. Count Reoccurring Characters    java-forums.org

Hi guys I'm a little stuck with this so any suggestions would be great. My goal is to analyze a character arraylist such as xxxxxxaaaa and then turn it into x6a4. This means basically for every time a character repeats it counts it and then prints the character and how many times in a row it repeats. Here's how I think ...

25. Counting characters    java-forums.org

Hi guys. So I'm writing a programme which counts characters from an external text file. My lecturer provided a small guideline to do it but there is an error somewhere which i'm having difficulty finding. can you help me please? TextFile inName = new TextFile (true, "data.txt"); int in; int counter = 0; while (!inFile.eof()) { in = inFile.readInt(); counter = ...

26. Help on Word and Character counting in java    forums.oracle.com

Please enter the sentence to analyse: Assignment2 may require a loop! Here are some statistics on your sentence: Word 1 has 11 characters. Word 2 has 3 characters. Word 3 has 7 characters. Word 4 has 1 character. Word 5 has 4 characters. There are 5 words. The longest word has 11 characters. The shortest word has 1 character. Press any ...

27. counting character    forums.oracle.com

i'm a beginner java programmer and i have problem when i want to count character in array this is my source code public class Split { public static void main(String[] args) { String[] x = Pattern.compile("").split(Keyin.inString("Input your character")); for (int i = 0; i

28. Looping assistance (counting number of characters in a variable)    forums.oracle.com

Good morning, all! I was wondering if anybody could take a look at this small, easy project I was working on today. I've searched the net for an answer and while it was useful and I learned a few things, nothing is really working. The code is pretty self explanatory, infact, I'm embarrassed I do not know how to do this, ...

29. counting characters    forums.oracle.com

30. Characters Count    forums.oracle.com

31. counting characters    forums.oracle.com

32. counting words, lines and char    forums.oracle.com

34. counting words, lines and char    forums.oracle.com

35. Counting character in a string    forums.oracle.com

I'm trying to count how many times a characters occurs in a string, and I'm having a lot of trouble. This is what I have so far: note: the method call has to be public static int countOccs(char f, String s) and I know that it can be done using only loops, for, charAt, and length () and I want to ...

36. Counting Number of Non-White Characters    forums.oracle.com

My main confusion is I dont know what do put in that method if I were to make it. I wanted to keep just the main method because its easier for me to follow. Isnt there a way to just read through the first line, adding to the char variable with each non-white character, doing nothing if it is white, and ...

37. Quick question about java count characters Method    forums.oracle.com

I am trying to create a method using countcharacters that counts the number of characters in one line of text. It should accept one line of text as a string parameter and retune the number of characters for the entire line. The code i have so far is below. I just can not get it to work. I really need your ...

38. Java programming count words, lines, characters and paragraphs    forums.oracle.com

public static void main(String[] args) { if (args.length != 1) { System.out.println("Usage: WordCount "); return; } String currWord; String currLine; String currCharacter; String inputFileName = args[0]; Scanner fileIn = null; // for file input try { // important: use these to read from and write to files fileIn = new Scanner(new File(inputFileName));

39. Method that count hoy many specific character exist in a string    forums.oracle.com

What is the method that I need to use in order to count how many caracters exist in a string (an specific caracter), and how may I use this number to get the position of any caracter?? For example ... I have this string ... "hello,hi,bye,see you later" And I wanted to get the number of "," that exist in that ...

40. String counting characters    forums.oracle.com

41. char count    forums.oracle.com

what went wrong? you made a rough guess at how it might work, and missed! you have declared an array of 26 elements, but you're using the length of the string as the index. if your input string is over 26 characters in length, you'll get an ArrayOutOfBounds exception. if it's not, the program will simply not work re-think your design! ...

42. A quick way to count the number of newlines '/n' in string of > 200 chars    forums.oracle.com

I have thaught of partial solution that I am currently trying out. The contents of the string will not change with every loop, though this part of my code. So I will impliment a listener for when the contents of the string changes. This way I cut down drastically on the amount of time this method needs to be called. Message ...

43. Assignment Char Count    forums.oracle.com

The program should allow you to type a string then count the characters and diplay total number of characters. here are the errors i am getting. C:\java\Chapter 9\Assignments\03\charcount.java:13: ';' expected int length() = str1; ^ C:\java\Chapter 9\Assignments\03\charcount.java:27: '}' expected } ^ C:\java\Chapter 9\Assignments\03\charcount.java:7: class CharCounter is public, should be declared in a file named CharCounter.java public class CharCounter ^ C:\java\Chapter 9\Assignments\03\charcount.java:25: ...

44. Count Character    forums.oracle.com