CharSequence (Java Platform SE 8 ) (original) (raw)

• All Known Subinterfaces:
  Name
  All Known Implementing Classes:
  CharBuffer, Segment, String, StringBuffer, StringBuilder

public interface CharSequence
A
CharSequence
is a readable sequence of char values. This interface provides uniform, read-only access to many different kinds ofchar sequences. A char value represents a character in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) or a surrogate. Refer to Unicode Character Representation for details.
This interface does not refine the general contracts of the equals and hashCode methods. The result of comparing two objects that implement CharSequence is therefore, in general, undefined. Each object may be implemented by a different class, and there is no guarantee that each class will be capable of testing its instances for equality with those of the other. It is therefore inappropriate to use arbitrary CharSequence instances as elements in a set or as keys in a map.
Since:
1.4

• • Method Summary

  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Default Methods

  Modifier and Type	Method	Description
  char	charAt(int index)	Returns the char value at the specified index.
  default IntStream	chars()	Returns a stream of int zero-extending the char values from this sequence.
  default IntStream	codePoints()	Returns a stream of code point values from this sequence.
  int	length()	Returns the length of this character sequence.
  CharSequence	subSequence(int start, int end)	Returns a CharSequence that is a subsequence of this sequence.
  String	toString()	Returns a string containing the characters in this sequence in the same order as this sequence.

• • Method Detail

     * #### length  
     int length()  
     Returns the length of this character sequence. The length is the number of 16-bit `char`s in the sequence.  
     Returns:  
     the number of `char`s in this sequence  
     * #### charAt  
     char charAt(int index)  
     Returns the `char` value at the specified index. An index ranges from zero to  
     length() - 1  
     . The first `char` value of the sequence is at index zero, the next at index one, and so on, as for array indexing.  
     If the `char` value specified by the index is a[surrogate](../../java/lang/Character.html#unicode), the surrogate value is returned.  
     Parameters:  
     `index` \- the index of the `char` value to be returned  
     Returns:  
     the specified `char` value  
     Throws:  
     `[IndexOutOfBoundsException](../../java/lang/IndexOutOfBoundsException.html "class in java.lang")` \- if the index argument is negative or not less thanlength()  
     * #### subSequence  
     [CharSequence](../../java/lang/CharSequence.html "interface in java.lang") subSequence(int start,  
                              int end)  
     Returns a `CharSequence` that is a subsequence of this sequence. The subsequence starts with the `char` value at the specified index and ends with the `char` value at index  
     end - 1  
     . The length (in `char`s) of the returned sequence is  
     end - start  
     , so if  
     start == end  
      then an empty sequence is returned.  
     Parameters:  
     `start` \- the start index, inclusive  
     `end` \- the end index, exclusive  
     Returns:  
     the specified subsequence  
     Throws:  
     `[IndexOutOfBoundsException](../../java/lang/IndexOutOfBoundsException.html "class in java.lang")` \- if start or end are negative, if end is greater than length(), or if start is greater than end  
     * #### toString  
     [String](../../java/lang/String.html "class in java.lang") toString()  
     Returns a string containing the characters in this sequence in the same order as this sequence. The length of the string will be the length of this sequence.  
     Overrides:  
     `[toString](../../java/lang/Object.html#toString--)` in class `[Object](../../java/lang/Object.html "class in java.lang")`  
     Returns:  
     a string consisting of exactly this sequence of characters  
     * #### chars  
     default [IntStream](../../java/util/stream/IntStream.html "interface in java.util.stream") chars()  
     Returns a stream of `int` zero-extending the `char` values from this sequence. Any char which maps to a [surrogate code point](../../java/lang/Character.html#unicode) is passed through uninterpreted.  
     If the sequence is mutated while the stream is being read, the result is undefined.  
     Returns:  
     an IntStream of char values from this sequence  
     Since:  
     1.8  
     * #### codePoints  
     default [IntStream](../../java/util/stream/IntStream.html "interface in java.util.stream") codePoints()  
     Returns a stream of code point values from this sequence. Any surrogate pairs encountered in the sequence are combined as if by [Character.toCodePoint](../../java/lang/Character.html#toCodePoint-char-char-) and the result is passed to the stream. Any other code units, including ordinary BMP characters, unpaired surrogates, and undefined code units, are zero-extended to`int` values which are then passed to the stream.  
     If the sequence is mutated while the stream is being read, the result is undefined.  
     Returns:  
     an IntStream of Unicode code points from this sequence  
     Since:  
     1.8

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