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A string is a sequence of characters. It is commonly used to represent text or a sequence of bytes. Use this tag along with the appropriate programming language being used.

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Read and convert binary files to ASCII text

You absolutely must close that Scanner. This snippet The scanner loop while (sc.hasNextLine()) { String line = sc.nextLine(); lastString = lastString + line; } creates a new String Objec …
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String manipulation in Java

Just recoded it, doing simply what your explanation said Except keep the first char if it is 'a' and keep the second char if it is 'b'. Since a possible deletion of a character will affect in …
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Collection of exact string matching algorithms in Java

The Matcher implementations You group all these matchers in a StringMatchers class. Other than grouping the matchers together, this class adds no real benefit. All macher's match() methods are static …
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Add a newline to a String if not empty in Java

I fear there isn't much to improve. You could avoid the concatenation if the String is empty : myString = myString.isEmpty() ? myString : myString + '\n';
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Check for balanced parentheses

I've only one addition to the other answers For the stack you use java.util.Stack, this seems like an obvious choice, yet it is a remnant from pre-collection times, and is a subclass of java.util.Vec …
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