I found this question about getting a java.util.streams.IntStream from a java String but I have not found this method now that I'm using Java 8.
Correction: As you guys pointed, I was using Java 7. Now the method chars()
is there. But the question still applies:
How can I get a Stream<Character>
from a String?
We can convert a String to an InputStream object by using the ByteArrayInputStream class. The ByteArrayInputStream is a subclass present in InputStream class.
A way to do this is via a String object: char[] list = {'a','c','e'}; Stream<Character> charStream = new String(list). chars(). mapToObj(i->(char)i);
I was going to point you to my earlier answer on this topic but it turns out that you've already linked to that question. The other answer also provides useful information.
If you want char
values, you can use the IntStream
returned by String.chars()
and cast the int
values to char
without loss of information. The other answers explained why there's no CharStream
primitive specialization for the Stream
class.
If you really want boxed Character
objects, then use mapToObj()
to convert from IntStream
to a stream of reference type. Within mapToObj()
, cast the int
value to char
. Since an object is expected as a return value here, the char
will be autoboxed into a Character
. This results in Stream<Character>
. For example,
Stream<Character> sch = "abc".chars().mapToObj(i -> (char)i); sch.forEach(ch -> System.out.printf("%c %s%n", ch, ch.getClass().getName())); a java.lang.Character b java.lang.Character c java.lang.Character
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