String Arrays In Java


 
In this blog, we will dive deep into understanding string arrays in java with this table of content…
String Arrays in Java
Declaring A String Array In Java
Initializing String Array In Java
Size Of A String Array
Iterating In A String Array
Searching Through A String Array
Sorting A String Array
Converting String Array To A String
Converting String Array To A List
Converting String Array To A Set
Converting List To A String Array
So let us start with understanding What are String Arrays In Java.

String Arrays in Java

We know that arrays in java are lists or collections of elements, strings in java behave similarly to arrays. They are character arrays and immutable, that is their size cannot be changed once defined. The characters are stored at contiguous memory locations just like arrays. Different operations such as searching for a character, sorting the string, splitting the string, or converting a string array as string iterating through characters, etc, can be performed on string arrays.

The main method public static void main(String[] args)  of core java takes string arrays as arguments.

Let us see how to implement string arrays in java. Make sure you have java installed for implementation.

Declaring String Array in Java

String array can be declared in 2 ways,
By mentioning the size of the string array
Without mentioning the size of the string array
// example program for declaring string Arrays in Java

import java.util.*;

class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

String[] strArr_1; // declaring without size

String[] strArr_2 = new String[2]; // declaring with size

}

}

If you print the array elements, you will get a null value for the size number of times, which is once for the first string array and twice for the second string array.

After learning how to declare String Arrays in Java, let us now learn how to Initialise String Arrays in Java.

Initialising String Array in Java

A string array can be initialised in 2ways;
Inline string initialisation
Initialisation after declaration
Example program for string array initialisation
// example program for initialising string arrays in java

import java.util.*;

class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

// inline initialization

String[] strArr_1 = new String[] { "A", "E", "I", "O", "U" };

String[] strArr_2 = { "A", "E", "I", "O", "U" };

 

// initialization after declaration

String[] strArr_4 = new String[5];

strArr_4[0] = "A";

strArr_4[1] = "E";

strArr_4[2] = "I";

strArr_4[3] = "O";

strArr_4[4] = "U";

}

}
After learning how to initialise String Arrays in Java, let us now learn how to access String Arrays in Java.

Accessing characters from the string array

Just like elements can be accessed from an array using an index, characters can also be accessed with the index or position of the character in the string array.

Here is an example program for accessing characters from a string array

// example program for accessing characters from the string array

import java.util.*;

class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

// inline initialization

String[] strArr_1 = new String[] { "A", "E", "I", "O", "U" };

String[] strArr_2 = { "A", "E", "I", "O", "U" };

System.out.println(strArr_1[0]); // first char from strArr_1

System.out.println(strArr_2[3]); // fourth char from strArr_2

System.out.println(strArr_1[4]);// last char from strArr_1

}

}
Output for the above program

A

O

U

Here the strArr[0] is the first element in the array and strArr[4] is the last element in the array, which is also one less than the size of the array because the indexing starts at zero.

If you try to access strArr[5] or at any other index which is not present in the string array, it will throw at you an exception error of java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

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After learning how to access String Arrays in Java, let us now learn how to find the size of String Arrays in Java.

Size of String Array

The size of the string array is the number of elements or characters in the array, irrespective of the index of the last element. Well, the size or the length of an array or string array can be found using the length variable in java. For Example

// example program for finding the size of the string Array

import java.util.*;

class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

// Initializing string arrays

String[] strArr_1 = new String[] { "A", "E", "I", "O", "U" };

String[] strArr_2 = { "F","I","T","A"};

 

// printing length of the string using length variable

System.out.println(strArr_1.length);

System.out.println(strArr_2.length);

}

}
Output for the above program
5

4
After learning how to find the size of the String Arrays in Java, let us now learn how to traverse through String Array in Java.

Traversing String Array

We can iterate through the string array and get each element at a time using a for loop, or for each loop.
Using for loop
// example program for traversing through the string Array using for loop

import java.util.*;

class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

String[] strarr_1 = { "F", "I", "T", "A" };

String[] strarr_2 = { "FITA", "Academy" };

 

//iterating through all the characters in the array using for loop

for (int i = 0; i < strarr_1.length; i++) {

System.out.println(strarr_1[i]);

}

System.out.println();

for (int i = 0; i < strarr_2.length; i++) {

System.out.print(strarr_2[i]+" ");

}

}

}
Output for the above program

F

I

T

A

 

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Using the for-each loop
// example program for finding the size of the string Array using for each loop

import java.util.*;

class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

String[] strArr_1 = { "F", "I", "T", "A" };

String[] strArr_2 =new String[] { "FITA", "Academy" };

 

// iterating through all the characters in the array using foreach

for (String str : strArr_1) {

System.out.print(str+" ");

}

System.out.println();

for (String str : strArr_2) {

System.out.print(str+" ");

}

}

}
Output for the above program
F I T A

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After learning how to traverse through String Arrays in Java, let us now learn how to search for a value from String Array in Java.

Searching for a value in String Array

We can search for a value in a string by looping over each element and comparing it with the value, this method will return the index of the first found match in the array, For example,

// example program for searching for a value from the string Array

import java.util.*;

 

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

String[] strArr = { "F", "I", "T", "A", "a", "c", "a", "d", "emy" };

Scanner scn = new Scanner(System.in);

boolean found = false;

int index = 0;

System.out.print("Find the index of ");

String str = scn.nextLine();

len = strArr.length

int pos = 0;

for (int pos; len> pos; pos++) {

if (str.equals(strArr[pos])) {

index = pos;

found = true;

break;

}

}

if (found)

System.out.print( " found”+str + in the string array at the index:"+ index);

else

System.out.print("Could not find " + str + "in the string array, str");

scn.close();

}

}
Output for the above program
Find the index of A

A found at the index: 3

 

Find the index of a

a found at the index: 4
After learning how to search for a value from the  String Arrays in Java, let us now learn how to convert String Array to a String in Java.

Converting string array to a string

The toString() method can be used on arrays to convert string array to string. Here is an example program
// example program for converting string Array to a string using toString method

import java.util.*;

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

String[] strArr = { "F", "I", "T", "A", "a", "c", "a", "d", "emy" };

String theString = Arrays.toString(strArr);

System.out.println(theString);

}

}
Output for the above program
[F, I, T, A, a, c, a, d, emy]
or using the StringBuilder class, we can pass a custom delimiter, For instance,
// example program for converting string Array to a string using StringBuilder class

import java.util.*;

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

String[] strArr = { "F", "I", "T", "A", "a", "c", "a", "d", "emy" };

String delimiter = " ";

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

for (String ch : strArr) {

if (sb.length() > 0) {

sb.append(delimiter);

}

sb.append(ch);

}

String theString = sb.toString();

System.out.println(theString);

 

}

}
Output for the above program
F I T A a c a d emy
After learning how to convert String Array to a String in Java, let us now learn how to sort a String Array in Java.

Sorting an array

We can arrange the string array alphabetically using the sort() method on the array.
// example program for sorting the string Array

import java.util.*;

 

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

String[] strArr = { "F", "I", "T", "A", "a", "c", "a", "d", "emy" };

System.out.println("Initial string array: " + Arrays.toString(strArr));

Arrays.sort(strArr);

System.out.println("sorted string array: " + Arrays.toString(strArr));

 

}

}
Output for the above program

Initial string array: [F, I, T, A, a, c, a, d, emy]

string array after sorting: [A, F, I, T, a, a, c, d, emy]
After learning how to sort a String Array in Java, let us now learn how to convert a String Array to a List in Java.

Converting A String Array To A List

Unlike arrays, a list is mutable, and its size can be changed. We can change the array to list using the asList() method. Here is an example for converting a string to list

// example program for converting string arrays to a list using asList method

import java.util.*;

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

String[] strArr = { "F", "I", "T","A" };

List<String> strLst = Arrays.asList(strArr);

System.out.print(strLst); // outputs [F,I,T,A]

}

}
Now to add more elements to the list, we will need to convert string array to an array list using ArrayList.Here’s how you would add elements to list,

// example program for finding the size of the string Array using ArrayList

import java.util.*;

 

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

String[] strArr = { "F", "I", "T","A" };

List<String> fxdLst = Arrays.asList(strArr);

List<String> strLst = new ArrayList<String>(fxdLst);

strLst.add("Academy");

System.out.print(strLst);

}

}
Output for the above program
[F, I, T, A, Academy]
After learning how to convert String Array to a List in Java, let us now learn how to convert a String Array to a set in Java.

Converting String Array To A Set

A set is a data structure and an unordered collection of elements just like an array or list, except that it cannot contain duplicate elements. Let’s convert our previous array to a set using the HashSet class. Example program to demonstrate string set

// example program for converting string Array to a set

import java.util.*;

 

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

String[] strArr = { "F", "I", "T", "A","a","c","a","d","emy" };

List<String> strLst = Arrays.asList(strArr);

Set<String> strSt = new HashSet<String>(strLst);

System.out.println("Size of list: " + strLst.size());

System.out.println("Size of the set is: " + strSt.size());

System.out.print(strSt);

}

}
Output for the above program
The size of the original list is: 9

The size of the set is: 8

[emy, A, a, c, T, d, F, I]
After learning how to convert String Array to a set in Java, let us now learn how to convert List to a String Array in Java.

Converting List To A String Array

We have covered most of the operations on string arrays and now for the final one, we will convert a list to the string using the toArray() method. Here is how with an example,
// example program for converting List to a String Array

import java.util.*;

 

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

//String[] strArr = { "F", "I", "T", "A", "a", "c", "a", "d", "emy" };

List<String> strLst = new ArrayList<String>();

strLst.add("F");

strLst.add("I");

strLst.add("T");

strLst.add("A");

strLst.add("Academy");

String[] strArr = strLst.toArray(new String[] {});

for (String ch : strArr) {

System.out.println(ch+" ");

}

}

}
Output for the above program
F

I

T

A

Academy

There are many more string methods available, and I would recommend you to practice these problems on strings in java.

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