How to check if a string contains all the letters of the alphabet? [duplicate]

Question

I am trying to check if a string contains all the letters of the alphabet. I created an ArrayList which contains the whole alphabet. I converted the string to char array and I'm iterating through the character array, and for every character present in the ArrayList I'm removing an element from it. And in the end, I'm trying to check if the Arraylist is empty to see if all elements have been removed. That would indicate the string contains all the letters of the alphabet.

Unfortunately, the code is throwing IndexOutOfBoundsException error inside the if condition where I'm removing elements from the arraylist

List<Character> alphabets = new ArrayList<Character>();

alphabets.add('a');
alphabets.add('b');
alphabets.add('c');
alphabets.add('d');
alphabets.add('e');
alphabets.add('f');
alphabets.add('g');
alphabets.add('h');
alphabets.add('i');
alphabets.add('j');
alphabets.add('k');
alphabets.add('l');
alphabets.add('m');
alphabets.add('n');
alphabets.add('o');
alphabets.add('p');
alphabets.add('q');
alphabets.add('r');
alphabets.add('s');
alphabets.add('t');
alphabets.add('u');
alphabets.add('v');
alphabets.add('w');
alphabets.add('x');
alphabets.add('y');
alphabets.add('z');

// This is the string- I've just put a random example
String str = "a dog is running crazily on the ground who doesn't care about the world";

//Remove all the spaces
str = str.replace(" ", "");

// Convert the string to character array
char[] strChar = str.toCharArray();

for (int i = 0; i < strChar.length; i++) {

    char inp = strChar[i];

    if (alphabets.contains(inp)) {
        alphabets.remove(inp);
    }
}

if (alphabets.isEmpty())
    System.out.println("String contains all alphabets");
else
    System.out.println("String DOESN'T contains all alphabets");

Answer 1

Adding to @Leon answer, creating a List and removing from it seems quite unnecessary. You could simply loop over 'a' - 'z' and do a check with each char. Additionally you are looping over the whole String to find out, if each letter is present. But the better version would be to loop over each letter itself. This can potentionally safe you a few iterations.

In the end a simple example could look like this:

// This is the string- I've just put a random example
String str = "a dog is running crazily on the ground who doesn't care about the world";
str = str.toLowerCase();

boolean success = true;
for(char c = 'a';c <= 'z'; ++c) {
    if(!str.contains(String.valueOf(c))) {
        success = false;
        break;
    }
}

if (success)
    System.out.println("String contains all alphabets");
else
    System.out.println("String DOESN'T contains all alphabets");

Answer 2

O(n) solution

static Set<Integer> alphabet = new HashSet<>(26);

public static void main(String[] args) {

    int cnt = 0;

    String str = "a dog is running crazily on the ground who doesn't care about the world";

    for (char c : str.toCharArray()) {
        int n = c - 'a';
        if (n >= 0 && n < 26) {
            if (alphabet.add(n)) {
                cnt += 1;
                if (cnt == 26) {
                    System.out.println("found all letters");
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}