package Others; import java.util.Scanner; public class CountChar { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.print("Enter your text: "); String str = input.nextLine(); input.close(); System.out.println("There are " + CountCharacters(str) + " characters."); } /** * Count non space character in string * * @param str String to count the characters * @return number of character in the specified string */ private static int CountCharacters(String str) { return str.replaceAll("\\s", "").length(); } }