how many characters in string java code example

Example 1: counting the number of characters in a string java

public static void main(String[] args) {
		int wordCount = 0;
		String word = "hill";
		for (char letter = 'a'; letter <= 'z'; letter++) {
			for (int i = 0; i < word.length(); i++) {
				if (word.charAt(i) == letter) {
					wordCount++;
				}
			}
			if (wordCount > 0) {
				System.out.println(letter + "=" + wordCount);
				wordCount = 0;
			}
		}
	}

Example 2: java get how many letters in a string

String str = "a string";
int length = str.length( ); // length == 8

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