Question

How to count the total number of punctuation characters in a string with Java

Answer 1

public class MyClass {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        String str = "Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language.";  
        
        int count = 0;  
        for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {  
            if (str.charAt(i) == '.' || str.charAt(i) == '?' || str.charAt(i) == ';' || 
                str.charAt(i) == '!' || str.charAt(i) == ',' || str.charAt(i) == '-' ||  
                str.charAt(i) == '\'' || str.charAt(i) == '\"' || str.charAt(i) == ':') {  
                count++;  
            }  
        }  
        
        System.out.println(count);  
    }
}




/*
run:
      
6

*/

 

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