Splitting Strings into Characters??

[sjohri214]

Hi,

I was hoping that someone could tell me how to split a String into its constituent characters?
For example:

String seq = "ABCDEFGHIJ";

How can this String be split into characters
A
B
C
D
E
etc, and then assign those characters to separate strings?

e.g. String s1 = "A";
s2 = "B";
s3 = "C";
s4 = "D"; etc ?

Thanks for the help

 

[kaht]

for (i = 0; i < seq.length(); i++) {
   s[i] = seq.charAt(i);
}

That will create an array of strings. Just be sure to initialize the array before you run the loop.

-kaht

 

[sjohri214]

Thanks for the reply kaht,

I used the code u provided.. although it was showing an error message "incompatible types".

So.. i used the following instead:

s = new String[sequence.length()];                         
            int j;
            for ( j = 0; j < sequence.length(); j++){                 
                s[j] = sequence.substring(j, j+1);
                System.out.println(s[j]);               
            }

 

[kaht]

odd, .charAt() is a valid string method......

-kaht

 

[hologram]

kaht,

"s[i]=seq.charAt(i)"

returns a char, so "s[ i ]" must be a char and not a String. So your code is correct if

"s= new char[seq.length()]"

So, depends on what sjohri214 wants, char or String.

 

[kaht]

duh.....

I've been doing too much javascript lately......
it lets you dynamically turn your variables into anything

-kaht