Determining the type of Character

In this section, you will learn how to determine the type of a character.

You can use the methods of Character class to determine the properties of a character. This class provides several methods for determining a character's category and these methods work for the entire Unicode character set.

In the given example, we have specified a character to define the kind of value contained in a char, whether it is a digit, letter, white space character, space character, or it should be in upper case or in lower case. To determine the character type we have used some static method of Character class:

isLetter(): This method determines if the specified character is a letter.
isDigit(): This method determines if the specified character is a digit.
isLowerCase(): This method determines if the specified character is a lowercase character.
isUpperCase(): This method determines if the specified character is an uppercase character.
isWhitespace(): This method determines if the specified character is white space.
isSpaceChar(): This method determines if the specified character is a Unicode space character.

Here is the code:

public class TypeOfCharacter {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		char ch = 'a';
		if (Character.isLetter(ch)) {
			System.out.println("Character is a letter");
		}
		if (Character.isDigit(ch)) {
			System.out.println("Character is a digit");
		}
		if (Character.isLowerCase(ch)) {
			System.out.println("Character is in lowercase");
		}
		if (Character.isUpperCase(ch)) {
			System.out.println("Character is in uppercase");
		}
		if (Character.isWhitespace(ch)) {
			System.out.println("Character is a whitespace character");
		}
		if (Character.isSpaceChar(ch)) {
			System.out.println("Character is a space character");
		}
	}

}

Output:

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