Frequency of Characters in Java
Count frequency of each character in a string.
IntermediateModule 4: String ProgramsExample 10 of 25
frequency-of-characters.java
1import java.util.LinkedHashMap;2import java.util.Map;3import java.util.Scanner;45public class Main {6 public static void main(String[] args) {7 Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);8 System.out.print("Enter a string: ");9 String s = sc.nextLine();1011 Map<Character, Integer> freq = new LinkedHashMap<>();12 for (char c : s.toCharArray()) {13 freq.put(c, freq.getOrDefault(c, 0) + 1);14 }1516 for (Map.Entry<Character, Integer> e : freq.entrySet()) {17 System.out.println(e.getKey() + " -> " + e.getValue());18 }19 sc.close();20 }21}
Output
Enter a string: aabccc a -> 2 b -> 1 c -> 3
What's going on
We use a LinkedHashMap to keep counts in the order of first appearance.