How to swap String characters in Java?

Question

How can I swap two characters in a String? For example, \"abcde\" will become \"bacde\".

Answer 1

String.replaceAll() or replaceFirst()

String s = "abcde".replaceAll("ab", "ba")

Link to the JavaDocs String API

Answer 2

import java.io.*;
class swaping
{
     public static void main(String args[]) 
     {
         String name="premkumarg";
         int len=name.length();
         char[] c = name.toCharArray();
         for(int i=0;i<len-1;i=i+2)
         {
             char temp= c[i];
             c[i]=c[i+1];
             c[i+1]=temp;
         }

         System.out.println("Swapping string is: ");
         System.out.println(c);

    }
}

Answer 3

I think this should help.

import java.util.*;

public class StringSwap{

public static void main(String ar[]){
    Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
    String s = in.next();
    System.out.println(new StringBuffer(s.substring(0,2)).reverse().toString().concat(s.substring(2)));
  }
}

Answer 4

This has been answered a few times but here's one more just for fun :-)

public class Tmp {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(swapChars("abcde", 0, 1));
    }
    private static String swapChars(String str, int lIdx, int rIdx) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(str);
        char l = sb.charAt(lIdx), r = sb.charAt(rIdx);
        sb.setCharAt(lIdx, r);
        sb.setCharAt(rIdx, l);
        return sb.toString();
    }
}

Answer 5

Here is java sample code for swapping java chars recursively.. You can get full sample code at http://java2novice.com/java-interview-programs/string-reverse-recursive/

public String reverseString(String str){

    if(str.length() == 1){
        return str;
    } else {
        reverse += str.charAt(str.length()-1)
                +reverseString(str.substring(0,str.length()-1));
        return reverse;
    }
}

Answer 6

public static String shuffle(String s) {
    List<String> letters = Arrays.asList(s.split(""));
    Collections.shuffle(letters);
    StringBuilder t = new StringBuilder(s.length());
    for (String k : letters) {
        t.append(k);
    }
    return t.toString();
}