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javastringcharacteralphabeticalsorting

Creating new String with sorted letters from a String word in Java

How do I create a String with alphabetical order letters taken from another String?

Let's say I have something like this

String theWord = "Hello World";

How do I compute the new String to make it look like"

dehllloorw

Which is theWord but sorted character by character in alphabetical order.

Thanks in advance

Solution 
  • char[] chars = theWord.toCharArray();
Arrays.sort(chars);
String newWord = new String(chars);