Splitting a string that has no delimeter (or regex)

[x-ice]

If i have a string "football" or "racing". How can i split this string? The String.split() method needs a delimeter (or as the documentation calls it a 'regex'). Because there is no regex i cannot use this method. Are there any other ways?

I want the new string to look like

f
o
o
t
b
a
l
l

[CornedBee]

Can't you just iterate through the string and use each character individually?

If not, try passing the empty string to split().

[x-ice]

Can't you just iterate through the string and use each character individually?

How would i do this?

[~Rob]

int i = 0;

while (String.length<i);
{
System.out.println(i);
i++;
}


ok, so that's dirty code that won't work but it should give you an idea of the structure. You may need to input the text into an array list

[crptcblade]

How would i do this?

Use toCharArray() to covert it to a character array...

  char[] chars = "football".toCharArray();
        
  for (int x=0; x<chars.length; x++) 
    System.out.println(chars[x]);

[CornedBee]

Meh. In Java 5, String implements CharSequence and thus is iterable.

for(char c : str) {
  System.out.println(c);
}

In 1.4, it's not necessary to convert to a char array, but the code above is quite broken.

[code]int len = str.length();
for(int i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
System.out.println(str.charAt(i));
}

[crptcblade]

Meh. In Java 5, String implements CharSequence and thus is iterable.

for(char c : str) {
  System.out.println(c);
}

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