Java™ for Programmers: Deitel Developer Series, Second Edition

Chapter 16. Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions

The chief defect of Henry King Was chewing little bits of string.

—Hilaire Belloc

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences.

—William Strunk, Jr.

I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.

—Blaise Pascal

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• To create and manipulate immutable character-string objects of class String.

• To create and manipulate mutable character-string objects of class StringBuilder.

• To create and manipulate objects of class Character.

• To break a String object into tokens using String method split.

• To use regular expressions to validate String ...