Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Follow these steps to find the length of a String in Java: Declare a variable of type String ...

“Suspicious call to java.util.Collection.contains: Given object cannot contain instances of Date (expected String).” This is definitely “suspicious” and is almost never what the developer ...

although the String contains only one character. To complete the use case, you must convert this one-character String into a single Java char with the charAt(0) method. Notice that the code has a ...

The Desire for Switching on Strings There is no question that some fellow Java developers are excited about the ability to switch on Strings. Two recent Java.net polls demonstrated this interest ...