Some important String functions

Some Important String functions

String t="Important String functions";

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To get length of a String
length();

t.length();
It returns total number of characters in t which is length of string
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To get a single character
charAt()

char ch=t.charAt(1);

This will assign 'm' to ch
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To get more than one characters
getChars()

This is used to get more than one characters from the string

int start_index=4;
int end_index=10;

char buffer[]=new char[end_index-start_index];
t.getChars(start_index,end_index,buffer,0);

System.out.println(buf);
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To create an array of characters
toCharArray()

This function can be used to create an array of all the characters present in the array

char[] test=t.toCharArray();
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To Compare two Strings

String anotherstring="...anything..";

Use t.equals(anotherstring);
if equals..returns true else false

Dont use == operator as it just finds whether two objects point to same instance.

Similarly we can use compareTo(anotherstring) which returns:
 Less than zero for t less than anotherstring
 Greater than zero for t greater than anotherstring
 And Zero when both the strings are equal.

 Both equals and compareto can be used with IgnoreCase extension as:
  equalsIgnoreCase(anotherstring) and compareTo(anotherstring)....

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To replace a particular charcter with another character

t.replace('t','h');

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To find whether a string contains a pattern

Here t.contains(anotherstring) is used which returns true or false depending

on whether t contains anotherstring in it.

Also contains cannot be used using IgnoreCase as no function like containsIgnoreCase
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