How do I check if a string contains a list of characters?

Question

How do I check if a list of characters are in a String, for example \"ABCDEFGH\" how do I check if any one of those is in a string.

Answer 1

The cleanest way to implement this is using StringUtils.containsAny(String, String)

package com.sandbox;

import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
import org.junit.Test;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

public class SandboxTest {

    @Test
    public void testQuestionInput() {
        assertTrue(StringUtils.containsAny("39823839A983923", "ABCDEFGH"));
        assertTrue(StringUtils.containsAny("A", "ABCDEFGH"));
        assertTrue(StringUtils.containsAny("ABCDEFGH", "ABCDEFGH"));
        assertTrue(StringUtils.containsAny("AB", "ABCDEFGH"));
        assertFalse(StringUtils.containsAny("39823839983923", "ABCDEFGH"));
        assertFalse(StringUtils.containsAny("", "ABCDEFGH"));
    }

}

Maven dependency:

    
        org.apache.commons
        commons-lang3
        3.5