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    Default Read in arguments as a String

    Hi I am a beginner in Java and need to read the arguments from command line into a String ignoring case.

    I tried
    String s = Arrays.toString(args);
        s = s.toLowerCase(); 
        System.out.print(s);

    And for arguments abcd Abcd

    It is printing out

    [acbd, abcd]

    Shouldn't it be printing out abcdabcd? I don't understand why it comes with square brackets. Can anyone explain it to me? Tks.


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    Arrays.toString is a method for visualising arrays, so the square brackets are there to show that it is an array.

    Try and explain what it is exactly you want your code to do.

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    Default Re: Read in arguments as a String

    I want to change the arguments from the command line to a single string with no upper case. For example, if args[0]= Hello and args[1]= World it would become a string= "hello world"

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    Try having a look at the javadoc for the String class and search for Java string concatenation on Google.

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    Default Re: Read in arguments as a String

    Thanks, I wrote:
     String str = args.toString();
     
        String s = str.toLowerCase();
     
        System.out.print(s);

    But now it is printing the address of s. I need to use method parseToString?

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    Default Re: Read in arguments as a String

    No, you have to iterate over args and concatenate them to one String.

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    Default Re: Read in arguments as a String

    I thought about it, but to concatenate I would need to know how many arguments the user set right? The idea would be a generalized code so arguments would become a single string regardless of how many arguments the user would set. Is there a way of concatenate as many arguments as the user set? I can't limit the number of arguments. Tks.

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    Have you ever read through the Basic Java tutorial? You can easily find out how many elements an array has.

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