Reputation: 14123

How to convert a char array back to a string?

I have a char array:

char[] a = {'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'w', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd'};

My current solution is to do

String b = new String(a);

But surely there is a better way of doing this?

Upvotes: 463

Answers (14)

Anubhav

Reputation: 2190

String output = new String(charArray);

Where charArray is the character array and output is your character array converted to the string.

Upvotes: 0

Adzz

Reputation: 127

Try to use java.util.Arrays. This module has a variety of useful methods that could be used related to Arrays.

Arrays.toString(your_array_here[]);

Upvotes: 1

Akash Yellappa

Reputation: 2324

Just use String.value of like below;

  private static void h() {

        String helloWorld = "helloWorld";
        System.out.println(helloWorld);

        char [] charArr = helloWorld.toCharArray();

        System.out.println(String.valueOf(charArr));
    }

Upvotes: 4

Arpan Saini

Reputation: 5247

 //Given Character Array 
  char[] a = {'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'w', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd'};


    //Converting Character Array to String using String funtion     
    System.out.println(String.valueOf(a));
    //OUTPUT : hello world

Converting any given Array type to String using Java 8 Stream function

String stringValue = 
Arrays.stream(new char[][]{a}).map(String::valueOf).collect(Collectors.joining());

Upvotes: 1

AalekhG

Reputation: 381

String str = "wwwwww3333dfevvv";
char[] c = str.toCharArray();

Now to convert character array into String , there are two ways.

Arrays.toString(c);

Returns the string [w, w, w, w, w, w, 3, 3, 3, 3, d, f, e, v, v, v].

And:

String.valueOf(c)

Returns the string wwwwww3333dfevvv.

In Summary: pay attention to Arrays.toString(c), because you'll get "[w, w, w, w, w, w, 3, 3, 3, 3, d, f, e, v, v, v]" instead of "wwwwww3333dfevvv".

Upvotes: 24

Jess

Reputation: 83

Try this

Arrays.toString(array)

Upvotes: -2

Ramnaresh Mantri

Reputation: 109

package naresh.java;

public class TestDoubleString {

    public static void main(String args[]){
        String str="abbcccddef";    
        char charArray[]=str.toCharArray();
        int len=charArray.length;

        for(int i=0;i<len;i++){
            //if i th one and i+1 th character are same then update the charArray
            try{
                if(charArray[i]==charArray[i+1]){
                    charArray[i]='0';                   
                }}
                catch(Exception e){
                    System.out.println("Exception");
                }
        }//finally printing final character string
        for(int k=0;k<charArray.length;k++){
            if(charArray[k]!='0'){
                System.out.println(charArray[k]);
            }       }
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

Curtis H

Reputation: 11

Try this:

CharSequence[] charArray = {"a","b","c"};

for (int i = 0; i < charArray.length; i++){
    String str = charArray.toString().join("", charArray[i]);
    System.out.print(str);
}

Upvotes: -3

Nathan Meyer

Reputation: 435

A String in java is merely an object around an array of chars. Hence a

char[]

is identical to an unboxed String with the same characters. By creating a new String from your array of characters

new String(char[])

you are essentially telling the compiler to autobox a String object around your array of characters.

Upvotes: 9

Jagmeet Singh

Reputation: 1

You can also use StringBuilder class

String b = new StringBuilder(a).toString();

Use of String or StringBuilder varies with your method requirements.

Upvotes: -4

David Titarenco

Reputation: 33406

String text = String.copyValueOf(data);

String text = String.valueOf(data);

is arguably better (encapsulates the new String call).

Upvotes: 169

Prasanna A

Reputation: 1

1 alternate way is to do:

String b = a + "";

Upvotes: -12

Billz

Reputation: 8135

This will convert char array back to string:

char[] charArray = {'a', 'b', 'c'};
String str = String.valueOf(charArray);

Upvotes: 40

A.H.

Reputation: 66323

No, that solution is absolutely correct and very minimal.

Note however, that this is a very unusual situation: Because String is handled specially in Java, even "foo" is actually a String. So the need for splitting a String into individual chars and join them back is not required in normal code.

Compare this to C/C++ where "foo" you have a bundle of chars terminated by a zero byte on one side and string on the other side and many conversions between them due do legacy methods.

Upvotes: 236

How to convert a char array back to a string?

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