Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* Copyright: 2015 Gholamreza Sabery Tabrizy This file is part of Tabdilak. Tabdilak is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Tabdilak is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Tabdilak. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import java.util.HashMap; public class Main { private static final HashMap<Character, Character> PERSIAN_TO_ENGLISH = new HashMap<Character, Character>(); public static String convertPersianNumeralToEnglish(String number) { if (number == null || number.length() == 0) throw new IllegalArgumentException("Provided argument is null!"); if (!isPersianNumberLegal(number)) throw new IllegalArgumentException("String must only contain Persian numerals"); String result = ""; for (int i = 0; i < number.length(); i++) result += PERSIAN_TO_ENGLISH.get(number.charAt(i)); return result; } private static boolean isPersianNumberLegal(String number) { for (int i = 0; i < number.length(); i++) if (!PERSIAN_TO_ENGLISH.containsKey(number.charAt(i))) return false; return true; } }