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 need to iterate through the code points of a String (see this answer) a shorter / more readable way is to use the CharSequence#codePoints method added in Java 8:

for(int c : string.codePoints().toArray()){
    ...
}

or using the stream directly instead of a for loop:

string.codePoints().forEach(c -> ...);

There is also CharSequence#chars if you want a stream of the characters (although it is an IntStream, since there is no CharStream).