how to count characters in word in 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: how to count words in string in java
String str = "I am happy and why not
and why are you not happy and you should be";
String [] arr = str.split(" ");
Map<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<>();
for (int i=0 ; i < arr.length ; i++){
if (!map.containsKey(arr[i])){
map.put(arr[i],1);
} else{
map.put(arr[i],map.get(arr[i])+1);
}
}
for(Map.Entry<String, Integer> each : map.entrySet()){
System.out.println(each.getKey()+" occures " + each.getValue() + " times");
}