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String - CIS 1068 Program Design and Abstraction

String - CIS 1068 Program Design and Abstraction. Zhen Jiang CIS Dept. Temple University 1008 Wachman Hall, Main Campus Email: zhen.jiang@temple.edu. Table of Contents. Introduction to text processing Char type String type String methods Fun to play String type cast If variation

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String - CIS 1068 Program Design and Abstraction

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  1. String - CIS 1068 Program Design and Abstraction Zhen Jiang CIS Dept. Temple University 1008 Wachman Hall, Main Campus Email: zhen.jiang@temple.edu

  2. Table of Contents • Introduction to text processing • Char type • String type • String methods • Fun to play • String type cast • If variation • Summary

  3. text processing: often involves for loops that examine the characters of a string one by one. Two data types involved Text Processing

  4. char: A primitive type representing single characters. P52. Individual characters inside a String are stored as char values. Literal char values are surrounded with apostrophe(single-quote) marks, such as 'a' or '4' or '\n' or '\'' Example, p67. char letter = 'S'; System.out.println(letter); // prints S System.out.println((int)letter); // prints 83, // explained on p956 Char Type

  5. Most programming languages use the ASCII character set. • Java uses the Unicode character set which includes the ASCII character set. • The Unicode character set includes characters from many different alphabets (but you probably won't use them).

  6. String Type • String: an object type for representing sequences of characters • Sequence can be of length 0, 1, or longer • Each element of the sequence is a char • We write strings surrounded in double-quotes • We can declare, initialize, assign, and use String variables in expressions just like other data types String s = “Hello, world\n”; // declare, init System.out.println(s); // use value s = s + “I am your master\n”; // concatenate // and assign

  7. Unlike primitive types, object types can have methods. Here is a list of methods for strings: String Methods Method name Description charAt(index)‏ returns the character at the given index indexOf(str)‏ returns the index where the start of the given string appears in this string (-1 if not found)‏ length()‏ returns the number of characters in this string substring(index1,index2)‏ returns the characters in this string from index1 up to, but not including, index2 toLowerCase()‏ returns a new string with all lowercase letters toUpperCase()‏ returns a new string with all uppercase letters

  8. The characters of a string can be accessed using the String object's charAt method. String indices start at 0. String word = “cola”; char firstLetter = word.charAt(0); if (firstLetter == 'c') { System.out.println("C is for cookie!"); } Starts at 0!

  9. Let s be a variable of type String • General syntax for calling a String method: s.<method>(<args>) • Some examples: String s = “Cola”; int len = s.length(); // len == 4 char firstLetter = s.charAt(0); // ‘C’ int index = s.indexOf(“ol”); // index == 1 String sub = s.substring(1,3); // “ol” String up = s.toUpperCase(); // “COLA” String down = s.toLowerCase(); // “cola”

  10. char values can be concatenated with strings. char initial = 'P'; System.out.println(initial + ". Diddy"); You can compare char values with relational operators. 'a' < 'b' and 'Q' != 'q' Caution: You should NOT use these operators on a String! Example: // print the alphabet for (char c = 'a'; c <= 'z'; c++) { //ASCII System.out.print(c); } Fun to play

  11. 'h' is a char char c = 'h'; char values are primitive; you cannot call methods on them can't say c.length() or c.toUpperCase()‏ "h" is a String String s = "h"; Strings are objects; they contain methods that can be called can say s.length() 1 can say s.toUpperCase()"H" can say s.charAt(0) 'h'

  12. 345 is an int int i = 345; • int values are primitive; you cannot call methods on them • CAN perform arithmetic: i = i * 2; // i==690 • CANNOT say i.length()or i.charAt(0)‏ • “345" is a String String s = “345"; • Strings are objects; they contain methods that can be called • can say s.length() // returns 3 • can say s.charAt(1) // returns ‘4’ • CANNOT perform arithmetic:s = s * 2; // ERROR!

  13. Objects (such as String) should be compared for equality by calling a method named equals. Example: Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.print("What is your name? "); String name = console.next(); if (name.equals("Barney")) { System.out.println("I love you, you love me,"); System.out.println("We're a happy family!"); }

  14. There are more methods of a String object that can be used in <test> conditions. Method Description equals(str)‏ whether this string contains exactly the same characters as the other string equalsIgnoreCase(str)‏ whether this string contains the same characters as the other, ignoring upper- vs. lowercase differences startsWith(str)‏ whether this string’s beginning matches the argument endsWith(str)‏ whether this string’s end matches the argument

  15. Hypothetical examples, assuming the existence of various String variables: if (title.endsWith("M.D.")) { System.out.println("What's your number?");} if (fullName.startsWith("Giorgio")) { System.out.println("When are you retiring?");} if (lastName.equalsIgnoreCase("lumBerg")) { System.out.println("I need your TPS reports!");} if (name.toLowerCase().indexOf("sr.") >= 0) { System.out.println("You must be old!");}

  16. String Type Cast The (String) typecasts don’t work with primitive types, like char, int, and double. (String) ‘A’ == TypeCastException (String) 27 == TypeCastException However, there are easy ways to convert to and from strings: Converting to strings: int x to String: x + “” or “” + x double x to String: x + “” or “” + x char, boolean, or float x to String: same thing

  17. Converting from strings: String s to int: Integer.parseInt(s) String s to double: Double.parseDouble(s) … String s to char: Character.parseChar(s)

  18. char grade; .... // compute the grade if(grade=='A' || grade=='a') { System.out.println(“Great job!”); } else if(grade=='B' || grade=='b') { System.out.println(“Very nice job.”); } else if(grade=='C' || grade=='c') { System.out.println(“Good job.”); } else if(grade=='D' || grade=='d') { System.out.println(“Keep at it.”); } else { System.out.println(“Work harder!”); } if/else Variation Tedious!

  19. char grade; .... // compute the grade switch(grade) { case 'A','a': System.out.println(“Great job”); break; case 'B','b': System.out.println(“Very nice job”); break; case 'C','c': System.out.println(“Good job”); break; case 'D','d': System.out.println(“Keep at it”); break; default: System.out.println(“Work harder!”); }

  20. Exercises • Write a program to handle a String s and an integer max that are inputted via keyboard. The result will be printed out, which contains the content of s abbreviated to at most max characters, but where the last three characters are ellipses (i.e., the characters …). If s is shorter than max characters, print out the original string . If max is less than 3, print out an empty string. • Input: • Hello how are you 10Result output: • The result is: Hello h... • Input: • Hello 10Result output: • The result is: Hello

  21. www.cis.temple.edu/~jiang/1068StringTest1.pdf

  22. Write a program to handle a secret message doc. The result will be printed out, which contains the second character of each word in doc, or a space if the word is only one letter long. • public static void main(String [] args){ String [] doc = {"He sat us by a spinning drum.", "You obstinate old eel. Emma!"}; System.out.println("The result is: "+result); } Result output: The result is: easy problem

  23. www.cis.temple.edu/~jiang/1068StringTest2.pdf

  24. Summary of Concepts • Char type, p52 • Variable, declaration, and value, p67 • String, p81 • String methods, p83-86 • String/char values, and concatenation, p81-83 • String type cast, p83 • String use in input and output, p91-95

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