[Snippets] Added String Manipulation Snippets for java

snippets/java/string-manipulation/ascii-to-string.md

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+---
+title: Ascii To String
+description: Converts a list of ascii numbers into a string
+author: Mcbencrafter
+tags: string,ascii,encoding,decode,conversion
+---
+
+```java
+import java.util.List;
+
+public static String asciiToString(List<Integer> asciiCodes) {
+    StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();
+
+    for (int asciiCode : asciiCodes) {
+        text.append((char) asciiCode);
+    }
+
+    return text.toString();
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(asciiToString(List.of(104, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 119, 111, 114, 108, 100))); // "hello world"
+```

snippets/java/string-manipulation/camelcase-to-snake-case.md

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+---
+title: camelCase to snake_case
+description: Converts a camelCase string into snake_case
+author: Mcbencrafter
+tags: string,conversion,camel-case,snake-case
+---
+
+```java
+public static String camelToSnake(String camelCase) {
+    return camelCase.replaceAll("([a-z])([A-Z])", "$1_$2").toLowerCase();
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(camelToSnake("helloWorld")); // "hello_world"
+```

snippets/java/string-manipulation/capitalize-words.md

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+---
+title: Capitalize Words
+description: Capitalizes the first letter of each word in a string
+author: Mcbencrafter
+tags: string,capitalize,words
+---
+
+```java
+public static String capitalizeWords(String text) {
+    String[] words = text.split("(?<=\\S)(?=\\s+)|(?<=\\s+)(?=\\S)"); // this is needed to preserve spaces (text.split(" ") would remove multiple spaces)
+    StringBuilder capitalizedText = new StringBuilder();
+
+    for (String word : words) {
+        if (word.trim().isEmpty()) {
+            capitalizedText.append(word);
+            continue;
+        }
+        capitalizedText.append(Character.toUpperCase(word.charAt(0)))
+                .append(word.substring(1));
+    }
+
+    return capitalizedText.toString();
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(capitalizeWords("hello  world")); // "Hello  World"
+```

snippets/java/string-manipulation/check-anagram.md

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+---
+title: Check Anagram
+description: Checks if two strings are anagrams, meaning they contain the same characters ignoring order, spaces and case sensitivity
+author: Mcbencrafter
+tags: string,anagram,compare,arrays
+---
+
+```java
+import java.util.Arrays;
+
+public static boolean isAnagram(String text1, String text2) {
+    String text1Normalized = text1.replaceAll("\\s+", "");
+    String text2Normalized = text2.replaceAll("\\s+", "");
+
+    if (text1Normalized.length() != text2Normalized.length())
+        return false;
+
+    char[] text1Array = text1Normalized.toCharArray();
+    char[] text2Array = text2Normalized.toCharArray();
+    Arrays.sort(text1Array);
+    Arrays.sort(text2Array);
+    return Arrays.equals(text1Array, text2Array);
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(isAnagram("listen", "silent")); // true
+System.out.println(isAnagram("hello", "world"));   // false
+```

snippets/java/string-manipulation/check-palindrome.md

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+---
+title: Check Palindrome
+description: Checks if a string reads the same backward as forward, ignoring whitespaces and case sensitivity
+author: Mcbencrafter
+tags: string,palindrome,compare,reverse
+---
+
+```java
+public static boolean isPalindrome(String text) {
+    String cleanText = text.toLowerCase().replaceAll("\\s+", "");
+
+    return new StringBuilder(cleanText)
+            .reverse()
+            .toString()
+            .equals(cleanText);
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(isPalindrome("A man a plan a canal Panama")); // true
+```

snippets/java/string-manipulation/count-character-frequency.md

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+---
+title: Count Character Frequency
+description: Counts the frequency of each character in a string
+author: Mcbencrafter
+tags: string,character,frequency,character-frequency
+---
+
+```java
+public static Map<Character, Integer> characterFrequency(String text, boolean countSpaces, boolean caseSensitive) {
+    Map<Character, Integer> frequencyMap = new HashMap<>();
+
+    for (char character : text.toCharArray()) {
+        if (character == ' ' && !countSpaces)
+            continue;
+
+        if (!caseSensitive)
+            character = Character.toLowerCase(character);
+
+        frequencyMap.put(character, frequencyMap.getOrDefault(character, 0) + 1);
+    }
+
+    return frequencyMap;
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(characterFrequency("hello world", false, false)); // {r=1, d=1, e=1, w=1, h=1, l=3, o=2}
+```

snippets/java/string-manipulation/count-character-occurrences.md

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+---
+title: Count Character Occurrences
+description: Counts the occurrences of the specified characters in a given string
+author: Mcbencrafter
+tags: string,characters,counter,occurence
+---
+
+```java
+import java.util.List;
+
+public static int countCharacterOccurrences(String text, List<Character> characters) {
+    int count = 0;
+
+    for (char character : text.toCharArray()) {
+        if (characters.indexOf(character) == -1)
+            continue;
+
+        count++;
+    }
+
+    return count;
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(countCharacterOccurrences("hello world", List.of('l', 'o'))); // 5
+```

snippets/java/string-manipulation/count-words.md

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+---
+title: Count Words
+description: Counts the number of words in a string
+author: Mcbencrafter
+tags: string,word,count
+---
+
+```java
+public static int countWords(String text) {
+    return text.split("\\s+").length;
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(countWords("hello world")); // 2
+```

snippets/java/string-manipulation/extract-text-between-delimiters.md

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+---
+title: Extract Text Between Delimiters
+description: Extracts a text between two given delimiters from a string
+author: Mcbencrafter
+tags: string,delimiters,start,end
+---
+
+```java
+public static String extractBetweenDelimiters(String text, String start, String end) {
+    int startIndex = text.indexOf(start);
+    int endIndex = text.indexOf(end, startIndex + start.length());
+
+    if (startIndex == -1 || endIndex == -1)
+        return "";
+
+    return text.substring(startIndex + start.length(), endIndex);
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(extractBetweenDelimiters("hello, world!", ",", "!")); // " world"
+```

snippets/java/string-manipulation/find-longest-word.md

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+---
+title: Find Longest Word
+description: Returns the longest word in a string
+author: Mcbencrafter
+tags: string,length,words
+---
+
+```java
+public static String findLongestWord(String text) {
+    String[] words = text.split("\\s+");
+    String longestWord = words[0];
+
+    for (String word : words) {
+        if (word.length() <= longestWord.length())
+            continue;
+
+        longestWord = word;
+    }
+
+    return longestWord;
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(findLongestWord("hello world123")); // "world123"
+```

snippets/java/string-manipulation/find-unique-characters.md

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+---
+Title: Find Unique Characters
+Description: Returns a set of unique characters from a string, with options to include spaces and control case sensitivity
+Author: Mcbencrafter
+Tags: string,unique,characters,case-sensitive
+---
+
+```java
+public static Set<Character> findUniqueCharacters(String text, boolean countSpaces, boolean caseSensitive) {
+    Set<Character> uniqueCharacters = new TreeSet<>();
+
+    for (char character : text.toCharArray()) {
+        if (character == ' ' && !countSpaces)
+            continue;
+        if (!caseSensitive)
+            character = Character.toLowerCase(character);
+        uniqueCharacters.add(character);
+    }
+
+    return uniqueCharacters;
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(findUniqueCharacters("hello world", false, true)); // Output: [d, e, h, l, o, r, w]
+```

snippets/java/string-manipulation/mask-text.md

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+---
+title: Mask Text
+description: Masks portions of a string, leaving specific parts at the beginning and end visible while replacing the rest with a specified character
+author: Mcbencrafter
+tags: string,mask,hide
+---
+
+```java
+public static String partialMask(String text, int maskLengthStart, int maskLengthEnd, char mask) 
+    if (text == null)
+        return null;
+
+    StringBuilder maskedText = new StringBuilder();
+    maskedText.append(text, 0, maskLengthStart);
+
+    for (int currentChar = maskLengthStart; currentChar < text.length(); currentChar++) {
+        maskedText.append(mask);
+    }
+    maskedText.append(text, text.length() - maskLengthEnd, text.length());
+    return maskedText.toString();
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(partialMask("1234567890", 4, 2, '*')); // "1234****90"
+```

snippets/java/string-manipulation/normalize-whitespace.md

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+---
+title: Normalize Whitespace
+description: Replaces consecutive whitespaces with a single space
+author: Mcbencrafter
+tags: string,whitespace,normalize
+---
+
+```java
+public static String normalizeWhitespace(String text) {
+    return text.replaceAll(" {2,}", " ");
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(normalizeWhitespace("hello   world")); // "hello world"
+```

snippets/java/string-manipulation/password-generator.md

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+---
+title: Password Generator
+description: Generates a random string with specified length and character set, including options for letters, numbers, and special characters 
+author: Mcbencrafter
+tags: string,password,generator,security,random,token
+---
+
+```java
+public static String randomString(int length, boolean useLetters, boolean useNumbers, boolean useSpecialCharacters) {
+    String characters = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
+    String numbers = "0123456789";
+    String specialCharacters = "!@#$%^&*()_+-=[]{}|;:,.<>?";
+
+    String allowedCharacters = "";
+
+    if (useLetters)
+        allowedCharacters += characters;
+
+    if (useNumbers)
+        allowedCharacters += numbers;
+
+    if (useSpecialCharacters)
+        allowedCharacters += specialCharacters;
+
+    SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom();
+    StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(length);
+
+    for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
+        int index = random.nextInt(allowedCharacters.length());
+        result.append(allowedCharacters.charAt(index));
+    }
+
+    return result.toString();
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(randomString(10, true, true, false)); // Random string containing letters, numbers but no special characters with 10 characters
+```

snippets/java/string-manipulation/remove-punctuation.md

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+---
+title: Remove Punctuation
+description: Removes punctuation (, . !) from a string
+author: Mcbencrafter
+tags: string,punctuation,clean,normalization
+---
+
+```java
+public static String removePunctuation(String text) {
+    return text.replaceAll("[,!.?;:]", "");
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(removePunctuation("hello, world!")); // "hello world"
+```

snippets/java/string-manipulation/remove-special-characters.md

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+---
+title: Remove Special Characters
+description: Removes any character which is not alphabetic (A-Z, a-z) or numeric (0-9)
+author: Mcbencrafter
+tags: string,special-characters,clean,normalization
+---
+
+```java
+public static String removeSpecialCharacters(String text) {
+    return text.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9]", "");
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(removeSpecialCharacters("hello, world!#%")); // "hello world"
+```