Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

14.3.2 String Methods length, charAt and getChars

String methods length, charAt and getChars return the length of a String, obtain the character at a specific location in a String and retrieve a set of characters from a String as a char array, respectively. Figure 14.2 demonstrates each of these methods.

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 1   // Fig. 14.2: StringMiscellaneous.java 2   // This application demonstrates the length, charAt and getChars 3   // methods of the String class. 4  5   public class StringMiscellaneous 6   { 7      public static void main(String[] args) 8      { 9         String s1 = "hello there";10         char[] charArray = new char[5];11 12         System.out.printf("s1: %s", s1);13 14         // test length method15