Splitting words into letters in Java

Question

How can you split a word to its constituent letters?

Example of code which is not working

 class Test {
         public static void main( String[] args) {
             String[] result = "Stack Me 123 Heppa1 oeu".split("\\a");                                                                                   

             // output should be
             // S
             // t
             // a
             // c
             // k
             // M
             // e
             // H
             // e
             // ...
             for ( int x=0; x<result.length; x++) {
                 System.out.println(result[x] + "\n");
             }
         }
     }

The problem seems to be in the character \\a. It should be a [A-Za-z].

Answer 1

"Stack Me 123 Heppa1 oeu".toCharArray() ?

Answer 2

You need to use split("");.

That will split it by every character.

However I think it would be better to iterate over a String's characters like so:

for (int i = 0;i < str.length(); i++){
    System.out.println(str.charAt(i));
}

It is unnecessary to create another copy of your String in a different form.

Answer 3

 char[] result = "Stack Me 123 Heppa1 oeu".toCharArray();

Answer 4

I'm pretty sure he doesn't want the spaces to be output though.

for (char c: s.toCharArray()) {
    if (isAlpha(c)) {
       System.out.println(c);
     }
}

Answer 5

Including numbers but not whitespace:

"Stack Me 123 Heppa1 oeu".replaceAll("\\W","").toCharArray();

=> S, t, a, c, k, M, e, 1, 2, 3, H, e, p, p, a, 1, o, e, u

Without numbers and whitespace:

"Stack Me 123 Heppa1 oeu".replaceAll("[^a-z^A-Z]","").toCharArray()

=> S, t, a, c, k, M, e, H, e, p, p, a, o, e, u