Library for identifying lexical features of a string in Java

Question

currently I need to find some special lexical characteristics of a string in Java such as

Total number of characters
Total number of alphabetic characters
Total number of uppercase characters
.... I wonder that is there a library can do that? It would be great to save coding time.
Thank you very much.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 25 '14 at 08:50

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google guava can do that.

Have a look at the Strings module: http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/StringsExplained

Check out the CharMatcher on that site!

And after matching it, you just use the length() method of the remaining String.

answered Feb 25 '14 at 08:50

Kenyakorn Ketsombut

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 25 '14 at 08:51

There is no such library. You'll have to write the 20 lines of code to do it yourself:

int length = s.length(); // get the length
int alphaCount;
for( int i=0; i<length; i ++ ) {
    char c = s.charAt(i);
    alphaCount += toInt( Character.isAlpha( c ) );
    ...
}

with

int toInt( boolean b ) { return b ? 1 : 0; }

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 25 '14 at 08:52

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You can take a look at:

.length() property to get the amount of characters in a given String.
.isLetter(Char ch) to check if a character within a string is a letter.
.isUpperCase(Char ch) to check if a character is upper case.

answered Feb 25 '14 at 08:52

npinti

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Library for identifying lexical features of a string in Java

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