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Converts a string to a Set

       
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import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

/**
 * <p>Utilities for strings.</p>
 *
 *
 * Copyright 2002 Sapient
 * @since carbon 1.0
 * @author Greg Hinkle, May 2002
 * @version $Revision: 1.5 $($Author: dvoet $ / $Date: 2003/05/05 21:21:24 $)
 */
public class StringUtil {
  /**
   * <p> Converts a string to a Set. Breaks the string to characters and store
   * each character in a Set.
   *
   * @param string the string to convert
   * @return a <code>Set</code> containing all characters in the text string parameter
   */
  public static Set convertToSet(String string) {

      // Result hashset
      Set resultSet = new HashSet();

      for (int i = 0; i < string.length(); i++) {
          resultSet.add(new Character(string.charAt(i)));
      }

      // Return result
      return resultSet;
  }

  /**
   * <p> Converts a char array to a Set. Puts all characters in the array to a Set.
   *
   * @param charArray an array of <CODE>char</CODE>s
   * @return a <code>set</code> containing all characters in the char array
   */
  public static Set convertToSet(char[] charArray) {

      // Result hashset
      Set resultSet = new HashSet();

      for (int i = 0; i < charArray.length; i++) {
          resultSet.add(new Character(charArray[i]));
      }

      // Return result
      return resultSet;
  }
}

   
    
    
    
    
    
    
  

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