I want to convert a String
to an array of objects of Character class but I am unable to perform the conversion. I know that I can convert a String to an array of primitive datatype type "char" with the toCharArray()
method but it doesn't help in converting a String to an array of objects of Character type.
How would I go about doing so?
char
to Character
, use Character.valueOf(mychar)
. If it is an array, loop each element and convert - ee. 2012-04-04 06:50
One liner with java-8:
String str = "testString";
//[t, e, s, t, S, t, r, i, n, g]
Character[] charObjectArray =
str.chars().mapToObj(c -> (char)c).toArray(Character[]::new);
What it does is:
IntStream
of the characters (you may want to also look at codePoints()
)Character
(you need to cast to actually say that its really a char
, and then Java will box it automatically to Character
)toArray()
Why not write a little method yourself
public Character[] toCharacterArray( String s ) {
if ( s == null ) {
return null;
}
int len = s.length();
Character[] array = new Character[len];
for (int i = 0; i < len ; i++) {
array[i] = new Character(s.charAt(i));
}
return array;
}
I hope the code below will help you.
String s="Welcome to Java Programming";
char arr[]=s.toCharArray();
for(int i=0;i<arr.length;i++){
System.out.println("Data at ["+i+"]="+arr[i]);
}
It's working and the output is:
Data at [0]=W
Data at [1]=e
Data at [2]=l
Data at [3]=c
Data at [4]=o
Data at [5]=m
Data at [6]=e
Data at [7]=
Data at [8]=t
Data at [9]=o
Data at [10]=
Data at [11]=J
Data at [12]=a
Data at [13]=v
Data at [14]=a
Data at [15]=
Data at [16]=P
Data at [17]=r
Data at [18]=o
Data at [19]=g
Data at [20]=r
Data at [21]=a
Data at [22]=m
Data at [23]=m
Data at [24]=i
Data at [25]=n
Data at [26]=g
You have to write your own method in this case. Use a loop and get each character using charAt(i)
and set it to your Character[]
array using arrayname[i] = string.charAt[i]
.
String#toCharArray
returns an array of char
, what you have is an array of Character
. In most cases it doesn't matter if you use char
or Character
as there is autoboxing. The problem in your case is that arrays are not autoboxed, I suggest you use an array of char (char[]
).
This method take String as a argument and return the Character Array
/**
* @param sourceString
* :String as argument
* @return CharcterArray
*/
public static Character[] toCharacterArray(String sourceString) {
char[] charArrays = new char[sourceString.length()];
charArrays = sourceString.toCharArray();
Character[] characterArray = new Character[charArrays.length];
for (int i = 0; i < charArrays.length; i++) {
characterArray[i] = charArrays[i];
}
return characterArray;
}
another way to do it.
String str="I am a good boy";
char[] chars=str.toCharArray();
Character[] characters=new Character[chars.length];
for (int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++) {
characters[i]=chars[i];
System.out.println(chars[i]);
}
if you are working with JTextField then it can be helpfull..
public JTextField display;
String number=e.getActionCommand();
display.setText(display.getText()+number);
ch=number.toCharArray();
for( int i=0; i<ch.length; i++)
System.out.println("in array a1= "+ch[i]);
If you don't want to rely on third party API's, here is a working code for JDK7 or below. I am not instantiating temporary Character Objects as done by other solutions above. foreach loops are more readable, see yourself :)
public static Character[] convertStringToCharacterArray(String str) {
if (str == null || str.isEmpty()) {
return null;
}
char[] c = str.toCharArray();
final int len = c.length;
int counter = 0;
final Character[] result = new Character[len];
while (len > counter) {
for (char ch : c) {
result[counter++] = ch;
}
}
return result;
}
I used the StringReader class in java.io. One of it's functions read(char[] cbuf)
reads a string's contents into an array.
String str = "hello";
char[] array = new char[str.length()];
StringReader read = new StringReader(str);
try {
read.read(array); //Reads string into the array. Throws IOException
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {
System.out.println("array["+i+"] = "+array[i]);
}
Running this gives you the output:
array[0] = h
array[1] = e
array[2] = l
array[3] = l
array[4] = o