What is the easiest/best/most correct way to iterate through the characters of a string in Java?

Question

StringTokenizer? Convert the String to a char[] and iterate over that? Something else?

Answer 1

If you have Guava on your classpath, the following is a pretty readable alternative. Guava even has a fairly sensible custom List implementation for this case, so this shouldn't be inefficient.

for(char c : Lists.charactersOf(yourString)) {
    // Do whatever you want     
}

UPDATE: As @Alex noted, with Java 8 there's also CharSequence#chars to use. Even the type is IntStream, so it can be mapped to chars like:

yourString.chars()
        .mapToObj(c -> Character.valueOf((char) c))
        .forEach(c -> System.out.println(c)); // Or whatever you want