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3. Character Randomizing Problem?    forums.oracle.com

Hi, I am trying to get 26 random characters using randomizers (although i don't need to use those) and not get the same character twice. So if one randomizer gets "a" none of the other ones can get "a". Does anyone know how to do this? If so, please help me out! Thanks in advance, QF

4. drawing a triangle with characters?    forums.oracle.com

I am supposed to write a program that draws a triangle like this: * ** *** **** ***** and so on with the number of rows and the type of character used to draw the triangle specified in command line arguments. I know I need to use for and/or while loops, but I have tried many combinations and nothing seems to ...

5. How to detect an upper case character    forums.oracle.com

6. First character of a string to lowercase    forums.oracle.com

7. Need help with a punctuation character    forums.oracle.com

8. Help with key evants moving a character around a text box.    forums.oracle.com

Basically what I want to do is to have a simple text box say 30x30 with a character for example a 'C' that I can move around the text box by pressing the arrow keys. So for examle if I press the up arrow, the 'C' would move up a little. And if i press the right key, the 'C' would ...





10. using ++ for characters ?    forums.oracle.com

Is it possible? I know you can't actually do a++ to make it work I'm just trying to see if the concept is the same for characters. Or if there's some way to make a = code; b = code; c = code; d = code; e = code; etc... shorter Edited by: aznprdgy on Nov 10, 2009 9:08 AM

11. Character instead of a return    forums.oracle.com

12. Split/remove characters for a string token    forums.oracle.com

13. Casting and Characters.    forums.oracle.com

public class charexamp { public static void main(String [] args) { char a='d'; System.out.println("a= " +a); int b = (int)a; System.out.println("b= " +b); char s =(char) (a+2); System.out.println("s= " +s); int f = (int)('b'-'a'); System.out.println("f= " +f); } } here is what it prints a= d b= 100 s= f f= 1 why? where dos it get the numbers from?

16. Using Character.isDigit...    forums.oracle.com

And how to use it for what you want to do? First figure out what you want to do. I don't think you've done that. Well, no, you seem to know what you want to do. You just don't seem to be able to break that desire down into smaller pieces, which is what you have to do if you want ...





17. Easiest way to locate specific characters within a string    forums.oracle.com

slowfly wrote: Thx for your answer! ... I've just written two classes, one with ... and one with ... Byte code has the same checksum (I guess the compiler cleaned up...) - With that in mind, the whole thing is code guideline, isn't it? (I prefer to check with ==, cause in my opition it's much easier to read) I never ...

18. How can I get single character without pressing ENTER?    forums.oracle.com

Hi, I have to make a little game, wich has to run in command line. The game is about controlling the snake in order to collect the food. The game will have to run on Windows and Linux OSs. I'm new to java and do not know how to get single character from command line without pressing the ENTER button. If ...

19. is there a method for adding a character to a string?    forums.oracle.com

Hello, is there a String method to add a Char to a String given the character number on the string? EXAMPLE: String text = "hello world" I'd like to add a comma after the the 'o' (4th character) so I that text reads: "hello, world" is there something like: text.addChar(Char, position in string) ?

20. Problem with characters    forums.oracle.com

21. having difficulty with a return character    forums.oracle.com

Hi, Writing a simple console app, but having trouble putting the cursor on the next line after the output, using lines like: System.err.println("'"input + "' is not a valid command, please try again.\n"); but the cursor is being put on the same line as the output, annoying, you hit a key and it goes to the right line, but it just ...

22. The code-count repeated characters    forums.oracle.com

I worked through the code for a while and the output is as shown 4 repeated characters.for mississippiii 0 repeated characters. for test 3 repeated characters.for abbcdaaaabb But for the word "abbcdaaaabb" Its giving 3 instead of 4. Plz can you help me here..It will be a huge asset and will appreciate any comments or help regarding my code. Thanking You ...

24. Using characters contained within brackets only once    forums.oracle.com

Hi everybody! I have a list of numbers which go from 0 to 999. Given a set of three numbers, I want to use regex to choose from that list of elements (0 to 999) using each number from the set only once: If the user enters 123, the regex should choose all the posible permutations of this set from the ...

25. Help with Character methods    forums.oracle.com

Hey all, Just a quick one... I am using the following code which works: String strInputValue; strInputValue = jTextAreaInput.getText(); However I wish to use a character chrInputValue instead of string...so when i do this command below: char chrInputValuel chrInputValue = jTextAreaInput.getText(); I get the error: Incompatible types: Found: java.lang.String Required: Char How can i get the input value by the user ...

27. funny characters appear on my output    forums.oracle.com

799294 wrote: eh... I don't understand what you meant. any code or class I can use to help me remedy the problem? So sorry for the troubles. You have presented no code so I am having to guess how you are reading the content of the URL. I assume you are using a URLConnection (or one of it's derived classes) obtained ...

29. How to highlight Urdu Characters    forums.oracle.com

I don't think this is a problem of String manipulation, but rather of HTML/Rendering. Many scripts render some characters differently based on other characters nearby (it also happens in latin scripts, but less noticably, see [ligatures|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature]). The problem seems to be that when you separate the two characters (for example with a tag), then the rendering engine won't know that it ...

30. handling the BOM character    forums.oracle.com

Which encoding are you using? Some workarounds would be to switch to one of the encodings that don't use BOM, such as UTF-16BE/LE. Of course that's not an optimal solution really. NetBeans and Java is to blame I guess, since a few months ago it was established that Java's streams don't handle BOM correctly. Code was provided for a stream that ...

32. Character class problem    forums.oracle.com

I'm currently stuck on a question asking me to 'assign a char (your choice, e.g. 'a') to a variable (e.g, as a parameter value passed to a method)' then 'using the Character class, determine the char that is 10 characters after the one assigned to the variable'. I've looked over all the methods within the Character class for quite a long ...

33. Java sendMail sending over funny character???    forums.oracle.com

34. 100 MB characters in object    forums.oracle.com

We are facing issue only in HP UNIX . The code works fine in Windows and Linux environment. More Details : We have web application in which we accept data from users in html forms and save this to disk on temporary basis. Issue is faced with address field where user is doing copy paste from excel/word rather than typing in ...

35. Need help with character detection...    forums.oracle.com

i keep getting false when input is 7 (it should be true). while if i have input as a character it is true. I did use * for 0 or more times.. From the pattern it should be NOT a-zA-Z (not a character), NOT a digit and NOT period,hyphen, underscore. so if user inputs HI$ the match should return false because ...

36. prevent characters from being desplayed on command    forums.oracle.com

Hi, If I run a program in command, and I want the user to type password without being seen - I want '******' instead of the real letters. How can I do it when I run my class in windows command ? It is not swing, only simple j2se class. I saw an example that runs another thread that fills the ...

37. {String} deleting a character...    forums.oracle.com

39. getString() does not retrieve String bigger than 255 characters    forums.oracle.com

Hi experts, I am using java with Sybase as backend. I have a field in table which stores varchar of around 400 characters. Now when I am creating a resultset in java and calling resultset.getString(1), it only returns 255 characters and remaining characters are lost. As per my knowledge there is no restriction on getString() in terms of data retrieval, atleast ...

40. Character sets: What am I missing?    forums.oracle.com

Hi all So I am trying to read the bytes of a file and then convert those bytes to a String by figuring out the character encoding. So this works with ascii, UTF-16 and UTF-8 working. So anyway, just right now I created a text file on windows with notepad and saved it. I can read it with FileReader, but when ...

41. Foreign Characters    forums.oracle.com

42. Problem with Character Set after upgrade    forums.oracle.com

Hello, I have a probelm and was wondering if anyone has seen this before. I have been running Java 1.4.2_13 for a while now on some Windows servers. About a month ago we upgraded to Java 1.6.0_12. We are reading input files that are in the character set Big5 HKSCS. After the upgrade our application started to report certain characters as ...

43. character is broken    forums.oracle.com

} } } Servlet file : Servlet1 make select box by using select DB. then pass to jsp file to update on Span.innerHTML. In the servlet file it writes correctly. but pass to JSP then it's broken like ??/???/?/,/????. What's problem? Can I convert req.responseText to UTF-8? when get response from servlet? var response = req.responseText; alert(req.responseText); Please help me for ...

44. Generating Control Characters in java    forums.oracle.com

We need to interface with a bar code printer to print special labels for a company. The Printer read a string and generates the labels from it. One of the characters in the string is a control character, in MS-DOS it would be represented as "^B". How would one generate this character in a java string? Here is the translation table ...

45. Combinations of characters    forums.oracle.com

The Combiner class: public class Combiner{ public Combiner(){} public int calculateCombinations(String inputText) { String inputCopy = inputText; int numerator = factorial(inputText.length()); int denominator = 1; while(inputCopy != "") { denominator *= factorial(howManyOccurances(inputCopy, inputCopy.charAt(0))); inputCopy = stripCharactersFromString(inputCopy, inputCopy.charAt(0)); } return numerator/denominator; } public int howManyOccurances(String stringToSearch, char characterToFind) { int count = 0; for(int i = 0; i < stringToSearch.length(); i++) { ...

46. Unrecgonized characters    forums.oracle.com

Charsets. This a pretty massive and in places confusing topic. It would be helpful if you 1) Defined what you mean by "input". Will these characters be entered by you in the source or a user somehow? If a user how will they input them? Through the console (System.in) or through a GUI or a file or something else? 2)Indicated what ...

47. user enters a name and extracts each character one by one? need help!    forums.oracle.com

I need a program that expects the user to enter any name and then it extracts each character one by one and then displays it one by one. It is necessary that you use a while or a for control structure. e.g if the user types in Humpty Dumpty, the program displays the following: H u m p t y D ...

48. AFTER EXECUTION IT TAKES ONE CHARACTER AND THEN IT SHOWS -1FOR THE SECOND ?    forums.oracle.com

WRITE A FUNCTION THAT TAKES TWO CHAR ARGUMENTS AND RETURNS 0 IF BOTH THE ARGUMENTS ARE EQUAL.THE FUNCTION RETURNS -1 IF THE FIRST ARGUMENT IS SMALLER THAN THE SECOND AND 1 IF THE SECOND ARGUMENT IS SMALLER THAN THE FIRST. ====================================================================== import java.io.*; class Ex5j { static int du1(char a,char b) { int x = a; int y = b; if(x==y) ...

49. Ignoring extra characters...    forums.oracle.com

johndjr wrote: LevelSix wrote: Can you explain to me why that's wrong? 2) The while loop never ends. How did you ever get the results you claimed from the code you posted. When I ran it i just ended up with an inifinte loop. My intuition is that the code the OP used to get those results isn't even nearly close ...

50. Weird character    forums.oracle.com

51. How to insert a character in string    forums.oracle.com

yes , go through a loop. find out the length of your string and and 50 to your counter on each pass. You might need to think about it a bit though - if you go through forwards you will notice that your string is getting longer as you insert the html blocks. you will need to cater for this. patumaire ...

52. Folder containing Swedish characters isn't recognise. IsDirectory()    forums.oracle.com

I have found the error! Thank you very much for all help! It was not Javas problem but the language I run it from. Bla bla bla... I was forced to change encoding of the argument to "LAT1" You probably dont understand what I'm talkning about but I'm very thankfull for all help! Cheers!

53. Entering a non-numeric character into an if statement...    forums.oracle.com

0. A user enters a value (Area there any limits on WHAT they can enter?) 1. What is the most restrictive case? This is the one that will catch MOST of the passes through. 2. What are the rules that make that case true or false? 3. What is the next most restrictive case? 4. What are the rules that make ...

54. Accessing the internal representation of a character    forums.oracle.com

Hai, Thanks for your reply. Once again, I would like the make my questions little more clear. When we declare and store a character in java, the character is stored in the memory as bits. Is it possible to access and modify the bits directly from the memory. Please give me ur idea. Thanks.

55. Unknown Character    forums.oracle.com

Hi, not sure if I am posting at the right forum I am currently working on a program that will require me to used nekohtml version 1.9.11. DOMFragmentParser parser = new DOMFragmentParser(); parser.parse(input, frag); You see, the usual "input" being produced should be "March 2008 in MALAYSIA" with older version But when I used version 1.9.11, it became like this: "March ...

57. Extract Character from String    forums.oracle.com

58. Order of characters in a string    forums.oracle.com

Hello, I need help with a project I am currently working on. What I want to happen is if the user gets a string of say "abc", I want it to give me all the possible orders of those three letters. abc, acb, bac, bca, cab, cba Of course in this project it is randomly generated letter, but the idea is ...

59. Deleting characters from a string    forums.oracle.com

This has nothing to do with "Deleting characters from a string". In the future, if you want good help, you should have a relevant thread title. Anyways, this is a simple problem, think where your special case is. On the last element, you don't want a comma. So if the index isn't the last element, print a comma.Or start by printing ...

60. national characters representation    forums.oracle.com

Hi! I'm writing a simple game on EasyWay Game Engine framework. It is based on lwjgl. I have a problems with chars higher than 256. The framework creates an large texture with graphical representation of only first 256 characters. I've tried to expand the texture with no luck. I'm wondering is it possible to move characters I'm interested in into the ...

61. Spliting a string based on Non Printable character    forums.oracle.com

Hi, i have a requirement where i have to split a String based in non printable character " MYU(ascii: 230); es: ""This is to test raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa AAA010224544 7118288888 is a not printable character and its ascci is 230.. iam getting that string from form how to split it in Java.. Any suggestions...?

62. Kanji characters issue    forums.oracle.com

63. Validation logic for US-ASCII characters    forums.oracle.com

64. UUID in character form    forums.oracle.com

65. AIX + Korean : garbage characters    forums.oracle.com

66. Adding New Line character to String    forums.oracle.com

Hi, I want to add a new line while concatenating strings. I am getting some string objects and put them together. while concatenating them i want new string to be displayed in new line. The purpose of this is i am displaying this bunch of strings on a mouse over finction using javascript. Hence i want the different values to be ...

68. Retain unique characters and its positions    forums.oracle.com

69. filtering out unwanted characters    forums.oracle.com

Thanks CeciNestPas..... I'll give line.replaceAll() a try.... and as for the question of why it was there in the first place.... I wish I knew. It's defeated me. The DB gets populated by a reading a tab separated text file (generated by I know not what). And despite all my best effors to filter these things out BEFORE it gets uploaded, ...

71. Sorting strings with accented characters    forums.oracle.com

Thank you guys for the quick response. Thanks for the link, uj_, but that led only to another explanation of how Collation works. It did mention RuleBasedCollator though, which was also described as a possible solution in Joachim's article. That would indeed solve my issue, but the problem is that our application will be used in an undefined number of countries, ...

72. korean character handling java    forums.oracle.com

73. Wrong Characters    forums.oracle.com

74. Passing Control Characters From Runtime.exec()    forums.oracle.com

the exec method returns a process object the process object has different streams associated with it: the standard input (where you can write), and the standard output and error (from where you can read) streams what you have to do is: 1) save the process object to a local variable 2) get the standard input stream of the process using the ...

75. How to insert new line character in string    forums.oracle.com

\u2028 is defined by the Unicode standard as a line separator, but there's no guarantee that whatever app you use to read the file will recognize it. Also, the file has to be written in one of the Unicode encodings like UTF-8 or UTF-16 to be able to use it. The real problem here is that Notepad is broken--always has been, ...

76. character sets    forums.oracle.com

However it still seems to appear as a question mark and i dont know what to do. I am passing this value through XML-RPC therefore i need to make sure its XML Compliant. I have tried using the apache StringUtils class to escape XML but it doesnt seem to conver the ? to anything and my XML-RPC call subsequently fails. I ...

77. Serial program giving wierd characters    forums.oracle.com

78. make first character to upper case    forums.oracle.com

79. How to get character adress    forums.oracle.com

80. Dangling Meta Character*    forums.oracle.com

in regular expression , a* means a,aa,....,aaaaa...a u pass some other string other than wild characters like *,?. the string u want to replace has * at its first place . even though the string has * at some other position like java*sun*com. it will not replace * with ur specified string. it will treat a* and n* i.e a,aa,aa.. or ...

81. String to character    forums.oracle.com

u r not understand about my question.i m trying to convert a character to ASCII.for instance, char simple='A'; int val=(char)simple; now i m having a problem coz i have a string which is alphanumeric n i want to convert the alphabet to int using ASCII. my code is like this: String cardID="4Dr6g8WPa684Cvf"; for (int j=0;j

82. PIXELS FOR CHARACTERS    forums.oracle.com

84. Help moving character    forums.oracle.com

85. Polish characters are not retrived from request object    forums.oracle.com

response.sendRedirect(response.encodeURL("http://hostname:8080/appName/abc.do?method=getReport&FirstName=Kotun&LastName=Prociak")); this code is passing two POLISH strings First Name & Last Name to the servlet. In the servlet i am trying to retrieve the values of the parameters "FirstName" & "LastName". Sring FN=request.getParameter("FirstName"); String LN=request.getParameter("LastName"); The variable FN & LN doesn't show the POLISH character in servlet. I tried with the below option in JSP (or) ...

87. How to set maximum characters to TextBox?`    forums.oracle.com

88. shuffle characters in String    forums.oracle.com

Hy,I'll start with a program i'm dealing with. I need to shuffle the characters in a String besides the first and last character in some text file for example. Well i started like this i put the word in some String then i make char[] c = s.toCharArray(); then make a list. List l = Arrays.asList(c); Collections.shuffle(l); Of course this doesn't ...

89. changing strings to characters    forums.oracle.com

if(swood == "P") { total = 100; System.out.println("Total is: " + total); } else if(swood == "O") { total = 225; System.out.println("Total is: " + total); } else if(swood == "M") { total = 310; System.out.println("Total is: " + total); } if(size == "L") { int newtotal = total + 35; System.out.println("The new total is: " + newtotal); } } } ...

90. How to handle user-defined character in java??    forums.oracle.com

Dear all, i am new to internalization and localization. i am now porting an application from vb.net to java. the vb.net version can handle (input/output [to file, screen, database] ...etc) user defined character (charset is big5 + extra characters) transparantly. what i need to do is update the file EUDC.tte in windows (which seems have native charset codepoint to unicode codepoint ...

91. Why does my output give weird characters?    forums.oracle.com

92. unable to use replaceAll function for " character........................    forums.oracle.com

Hi all, I am developing small program, the purpose is to replace all the characters <, >, &, " in the string with single character space. First three characters i am able to change, but when i am trying to use " (str4 = str3.replaceAll("""," ");)it is giving error. can any body help.. Thanks, Madhusudhan.

93. I need to add control character to a String.    forums.oracle.com

94. Optical Character Recognizer (OCR)    forums.oracle.com

95. Character Java    forums.oracle.com

Hello,I'm Dario and I'm italian. I'm programming in Java with the IDE Netbeans 5.5.1. I'm dealing with Steganography and TripleDES.I've this problem: from decimal 0 to decimal 127 netbeans gives on the output the corrispondent character ascii,but from 128 to 255 netbeans doesn't give the corrispondent character of the ASCII extended. For example,to 128 corresponds the following character:''. Instead Netbeans prints ...

96. JExcelAPI with accented characters    forums.oracle.com

Hi everyone, I posted this message on the JExcelAPI yahoo group, but that group seems a bit static, so I thought I might run it by yall. I am having some issues with bringing accented and other foreign characters in from an Excel file. I am using the demo program to produce an XML file from an Excel file with only ...

97. Java character validation    forums.oracle.com

Just as a test, before the if statement you can add a statement that prints the string with | and | around it (to check for extra spaces). Like... System.out.println("|" + myVariable + "|"); Also, in your if, why does the first variable have a lowercase m and the second have an uppercase m?

98. Problem with ISO Latin-1 code characters....    forums.oracle.com

I have a string (which contains HTML code) that i use to write a HTML page. This string has latin-1 code characters i.e. instead of . The problem is that my server (dont ask) wont accept these characters. I therefore want to convert these latin characters into HTML special entities. Can you offer any advice on how to do this? ...

99. Character Comparisons    forums.oracle.com

Enter postfix: ABC+* Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1 at StackX.pop(Postfix.java:27) at ParsePost.doParse(Postfix.java:77) StackX.pop() just pops a tree off the top off the stack. Here is the output when I use integers as characters. Enter postfix: 123+* Inorder: ( ( 1 ) * ( ( 2 ) + ( 3 ) ) ) Preorder: * 1 + 2 3 Postorder: 1 ...

100. receiving \ Character    forums.oracle.com