For a nonempty String of size 10 characters or less, the added overhead cost relative to useful payload (2 bytes for each char plus 4 bytes for the length), ranges from 100 to 400 percent.

Read a line of text with the Scanner as you normally would do. Change the Scanner’s delimiter to an empty set of double quotes, "". Convert each single-character to a char with the charAt(0) method.

Java developers use the Character, String, StringBuffer, and StringTokenizer classes to represent and manipulate text in programs. Learn how to create objects from these classes and examine their ...