What is String?

Strings are a sequence of characters. java strings are considered objects.

The java.lang package contains the String class to create and manipulate strings.

What is Character Array?

char is a primitive data type. A character Array is a group of characters.

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Convert a String to a Character array in Java

We can convert the Given String into the character Array by using the Strings toCharArray() method.

The syntax is 


 
char[]	toCharArray()

Converts this string to a new character array. 


 
String str = "Hello World"; 
char[] charArray = str.toCharArray();

Java program to Convert a String to the Character Array 


 
package com.bala.string;

public class ConvertStringToCharArray {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		String value = "HelloWorld"; // String

		char[] array = value.toCharArray();

		// print the char array content by iterating array
		for (char ch : array) // Iterating array values
		{
			System.out.println(ch);
		}
	}
}

output: 


 
H
e
l
l
o
W
o
r
l
d

Questions related to Convert a String to Character array in Java

How do you convert a string to a char in Java?

We can use the charAt() method of the String class. The charAt() method returns a single character present in the given position.

Can we convert a string to a character array in Java?

By using String class toCharArray() method we can convert a string to a character array.


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