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Efficient way to find longest streak of characters in string

This code works fine but I'm looking for a way to optimize it. If you look at the long string, you can see 'l' appears five times consecutively. No other character appears this many times consecutively. So, the output is 5. Now, the problem is this method checks each and every character and even after the max is found, it continues to check the remaining characters. Is there a more efficient way?
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(longestStreak("KDDiiigllllldddfnnlleeezzeddd"));
}
private static int longestStreak(String str) {
int max = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {
int count = 0;
for (int j = i; j < str.length(); j++) {
if (str.charAt(i) == str.charAt(j)) {
count++;
} else break;
}
if (count > max) max = count;
}
return max;
}
}

We could add variable for previous char count in single iteration. Also as an additional optimisation we stop iteration if i + max - currentLenght < str.length(). It means that max can not be changed:
private static int longestStreak(String str) {
int maxLenght = 0;
int currentLenght = 1;
char prev = str.charAt(0);
for (int index = 1; index < str.length() && isMaxCanBeChanged(str, maxLenght, currentLenght, index); index++) {
char currentChar = str.charAt(index);
if (currentChar == prev) {
currentLenght++;
} else {
maxLenght = Math.max(maxLenght, currentLenght);
currentLenght = 1;
}
prev = currentChar;
}
return Math.max(maxLenght, currentLenght);
}
private static boolean isMaxCanBeChanged(String str, int max, int currentLenght, int index) {
return index + max - currentLenght < str.length();
}

Here is a regex magic solution, which although a bit brute force perhaps gets some brownie points. We can iterate starting with the number of characters in the original input, decreasing by one at a time, trying to do a regex replacement of continuous characters of that length. If the replacement works, then we know we found the longest streak.
String input = "KDDiiigllllldddfnnlleeezzeddd";
for (int i=input.length(); i > 0; --i) {
String replace = input.replaceAll(".*?(.)(\\1{" + (i-1) + "}).*", "$1");
if (replace.length() != input.length()) {
System.out.println("longest streak is: " + replace);
}
}
This prints:
longest streak is: lllll

Yes there is. C++ code:
string str = "KDDiiigllllldddfnnlleeezzeddd";
int longest_streak = 1, current_streak = 1; char longest_letter = str[0];
for (int i = 1; i < str.size(); ++i) {
if (str[i] == str[i - 1])
current_streak++;
else current_streak = 1;
if (current_streak > longest_streak) {
longest_streak = current_streak;
longest_letter = str[i];
}
}
cout << "The longest streak is: " << longest_streak << " and the character is: " << longest_letter << "\n";
LE: If needed, I can provide the Java code for it, but I think you get the idea.
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(longestStreak("KDDiiigllllldddfnnlleeezzeddd"));
}
private static int longestStreak(String str) {
int longest_streak = 1, current_streak = 1; char longest_letter = str.charAt(0);
for (int i = 1; i < str.length(); ++i) {
if (str.charAt(i) == str.charAt(i - 1))
current_streak++;
else current_streak = 1;
if (current_streak > longest_streak) {
longest_streak = current_streak;
longest_letter = str.charAt(i);
}
}
return longest_streak;
}
}

The loop could be rewritten a bit smaller, but mainly the condition can be optimized:
i < str.length() - max

Using Stream and collector. It should give all highest repeated elements.
Code:
String lineString = "KDDiiiiiiigllllldddfnnlleeezzeddd";
String[] lineSplit = lineString.split("");
Map<String, Integer> collect = Arrays.stream(lineSplit)
.collect(Collectors.groupingBy(Function.identity(), Collectors.summingInt(e -> 1)));
int maxValueInMap = (Collections.max(collect.values()));
for (Entry<String, Integer> entry : collect.entrySet()) {
if (entry.getValue() == maxValueInMap) {
System.out.printf("Character: %s, Repetition: %d\n", entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
}
}
Output:
Character: i, Repetition: 7
Character: l, Repetition: 7
P.S I am not sure how efficient this code it. I just learned Streams.

Trying to find the longest palindrome for this input

Given a string which consists of lowercase or uppercase letters, find the length of the longest palindromes that can be built with those letters.
This is case sensitive, for example "Aa" is not considered a palindrome here.
Note:
Assume the length of given string will not exceed 1,010.
Example:
Input: "abccccdd"
Output: 7
Explanation:
One longest palindrome that can be built is "dccaccd", whose length is 7.
My code works for simple inputs such as "abccccdd" and "banana" but fails for "civilwartestingwhetherthatnaptionoranynartionsoconceivedandsodedicatedcanlongendureWeareqmetonagreatbattlefiemldoftzhatwarWehavecometodedicpateaportionofthatfieldasafinalrestingplaceforthosewhoheregavetheirlivesthatthatnationmightliveItisaltogetherfangandproperthatweshoulddothisButinalargersensewecannotdedicatewecannotconsecratewecannothallowthisgroundThebravelmenlivinganddeadwhostruggledherehaveconsecrateditfaraboveourpoorponwertoaddordetractTgheworldadswfilllittlenotlenorlongrememberwhatwesayherebutitcanneverforgetwhattheydidhereItisforusthelivingrathertobededicatedheretotheulnfinishedworkwhichtheywhofoughtherehavethusfarsonoblyadvancedItisratherforustobeherededicatedtothegreattdafskremainingbeforeusthatfromthesehonoreddeadwetakeincreaseddevotiontothatcauseforwhichtheygavethelastpfullmeasureofdevotionthatweherehighlyresolvethatthesedeadshallnothavediedinvainthatthisnationunsderGodshallhaveanewbirthoffreedomandthatgovernmentofthepeoplebythepeopleforthepeopleshallnotperishfromtheearth". I'm not sure how to debug it.
class Solution {
public int longestPalindrome(String s) {
Map<Character, Integer> map = new HashMap<>();
char[] carr = s.toCharArray();
Arrays.sort(carr);
int leftInd = 0;
int rightInd = 0;
for(int i=0; i<carr.length; i++){
if(map.containsKey(carr[i]))
continue;
else
map.put(carr[i], 1);
}
for(int i=0; i<carr.length-1; i++){
for(int j=i+1; j<carr.length; j++){
if(carr[i]==carr[j]){
if(map.get(carr[i])==null)
continue;
carr[j] = Character.MIN_VALUE;
int count = map.get(carr[i]);
map.put(carr[i], count + 1);
}
}
}
int ans = 0;
int[] oddValArr = new int[map.size()];
int oddInd = 0;
for (Map.Entry<Character, Integer> entry : map.entrySet()) {
Character key = entry.getKey();
Integer value = entry.getValue();
if(value % 2 == 0){
ans += value;
}
else{
oddValArr[oddInd] = value;
oddInd++;
}
}
int biggestOddNum = 0;
for(int i=0; i<oddValArr.length; i++){
if(oddValArr[i] > biggestOddNum)
biggestOddNum = oddValArr[i];
}
return ans + biggestOddNum;
}
}
Output
655
Expected
983

Your mistake here, is that you use only the biggest odd group out of your oddValArr. For example, if the input is "aaabbb", the biggest palindrome is "abbba", so group a had length 3, which is an odd number, and we used 3 - 1 = 2 letters of it.
Also, those nested for loops can be replaced with one for, using Map:
public int longestPalindrome(String s) {
Map<Character, Integer> map = new HashMap<>(); // letter groups
for(int i=0; i<s.length(); i++){
char c = s.charAt(i));
if(map.containsKey(c))
map.put(c, map.get(i) + 1);
else
map.put(c, 1);
}
boolean containsOddGroups = false;
int ans = 0;
for(int count : map.values()){
if(count % 2 == 0) // even group
ans += count;
else{ // odd group
containsOddGroups = true;
ans += count - 1;
}
}
if(!containOddGroups)
return ans;
else
return ans + 1; // we can place one letter in the center of palindrome
}

You are almost there but have over complicated it quite a bit. My solution by almost only deleting code from your solution:
public static int longestPalindrome(String s) {
Map<Character, Integer> map = new HashMap<>();
char[] carr = s.toCharArray();
for (int i = 0; i < carr.length; i++) {
if (map.containsKey(carr[i]))
map.put(carr[i], map.get(carr[i]) + 1);
else
map.put(carr[i], 1);
}
int ans = 0;
int odd = 0;
for (Integer value : map.values()) {
if (value % 2 == 0) {
ans += value;
} else {
ans += value - 1;
odd = 1;
}
}
return ans + odd;
}
Explanation:
the second loop has been removed, together with the sorting - it has been merged into the first loop. There was no need for sorting at all.
then you iterate over the counts of how often a character appeared
if it is even you increase ans as before
if it is odd you can use count - 1 chars of it for the palindrome of even length
if you found at least one odd occurrence you can put that single odd char into the center of the palindrome and increase its length by one

Most efficient way to search for unknown patterns in a string?

I am trying to find patterns that:
occur more than once
are more than 1 character long
are not substrings of any other known pattern
without knowing any of the patterns that might occur.
For example:
The string "the boy fell by the bell" would return 'ell', 'the b', 'y '.
The string "the boy fell by the bell, the boy fell by the bell" would return 'the boy fell by the bell'.
Using double for-loops, it can be brute forced very inefficiently:
ArrayList<String> patternsList = new ArrayList<>();
int length = string.length();
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
int limit = (length - i) / 2;
for (int j = limit; j >= 1; j--) {
int candidateEndIndex = i + j;
String candidate = string.substring(i, candidateEndIndex);
if(candidate.length() <= 1) {
continue;
}
if (string.substring(candidateEndIndex).contains(candidate)) {
boolean notASubpattern = true;
for (String pattern : patternsList) {
if (pattern.contains(candidate)) {
notASubpattern = false;
break;
}
}
if (notASubpattern) {
patternsList.add(candidate);
}
}
}
}
However, this is incredibly slow when searching large strings with tons of patterns.

You can build a suffix tree for your string in linear time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix_tree
The patterns you are looking for are the strings corresponding to internal nodes that have only leaf children.

You could use n-grams to find patterns in a string. It would take O(n) time to scan the string for n-grams. When you find a substring by using a n-gram, put it into a hash table with a count of how many times that substring was found in the string. When you're done searching for n-grams in the string, search the hash table for counts greater than 1 to find recurring patterns in the string.
For example, in the string "the boy fell by the bell, the boy fell by the bell" using a 6-gram will find the substring "the boy fell by the bell". A hash table entry with that substring will have a count of 2 because it occurred twice in the string. Varying the number of words in the n-gram will help you discover different patterns in the string.
Dictionary<string, int>dict = new Dictionary<string, int>();
int count = 0;
int ngramcount = 6;
string substring = "";
// Add entries to the hash table
while (count < str.length) {
// copy the words into the substring
int i = 0;
substring = "";
while (ngramcount > 0 && count < str.length) {
substring[i] = str[count];
if (str[i] == ' ')
ngramcount--;
i++;
count++;
}
ngramcount = 6;
substring.Trim(); // get rid of the last blank in the substring
// Update the dictionary (hash table) with the substring
if (dict.Contains(substring)) { // substring is already in hash table so increment the count
int hashCount = dict[substring];
hashCount++;
dict[substring] = hashCount;
}
else
dict[substring] = 1;
}
// Find the most commonly occurrring pattern in the string
// by searching the hash table for the greatest count.
int maxCount = 0;
string mostCommonPattern = "";
foreach (KeyValuePair<string, int> pair in dict) {
if (pair.Value > maxCount) {
maxCount = pair.Value;
mostCommonPattern = pair.Key;
}
}

I've written this just for fun. I hope I have understood the problem correctly, this is valid and fast enough; if not, please be easy on me :) I might optimize it a little more I guess, if someone finds it useful.
private static IEnumerable<string> getPatterns(string txt)
{
char[] arr = txt.ToArray();
BitArray ba = new BitArray(arr.Length);
for (int shingle = getMaxShingleSize(arr); shingle >= 2; shingle--)
{
char[] arr1 = new char[shingle];
int[] indexes = new int[shingle];
HashSet<int> hs = new HashSet<int>();
Dictionary<int, int[]> dic = new Dictionary<int, int[]>();
for (int i = 0, count = arr.Length - shingle; i <= count; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < shingle; j++)
{
int index = i + j;
arr1[j] = arr[index];
indexes[j] = index;
}
int h = getHashCode(arr1);
if (hs.Add(h))
{
int[] indexes1 = new int[indexes.Length];
Buffer.BlockCopy(indexes, 0, indexes1, 0, indexes.Length * sizeof(int));
dic.Add(h, indexes1);
}
else
{
bool exists = false;
foreach (int index in indexes)
if (ba.Get(index))
{
exists = true;
break;
}
if (!exists)
{
int[] indexes1 = dic[h];
if (indexes1 != null)
foreach (int index in indexes1)
if (ba.Get(index))
{
exists = true;
break;
}
}
if (!exists)
{
foreach (int index in indexes)
ba.Set(index, true);
int[] indexes1 = dic[h];
if (indexes1 != null)
foreach (int index in indexes1)
ba.Set(index, true);
dic[h] = null;
yield return new string(arr1);
}
}
}
}
}
private static int getMaxShingleSize(char[] arr)
{
for (int shingle = 2; shingle <= arr.Length / 2 + 1; shingle++)
{
char[] arr1 = new char[shingle];
HashSet<int> hs = new HashSet<int>();
bool noPattern = true;
for (int i = 0, count = arr.Length - shingle; i <= count; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < shingle; j++)
arr1[j] = arr[i + j];
int h = getHashCode(arr1);
if (!hs.Add(h))
{
noPattern = false;
break;
}
}
if (noPattern)
return shingle - 1;
}
return -1;
}
private static int getHashCode(char[] arr)
{
unchecked
{
int hash = (int)2166136261;
foreach (char c in arr)
hash = (hash * 16777619) ^ c.GetHashCode();
return hash;
}
}
Edit
My previous code has serious problems. This one is better:
private static IEnumerable<string> getPatterns(string txt)
{
Dictionary<int, int> dicIndexSize = new Dictionary<int, int>();
for (int shingle = 2, count0 = txt.Length / 2 + 1; shingle <= count0; shingle++)
{
Dictionary<string, int> dic = new Dictionary<string, int>();
bool patternExists = false;
for (int i = 0, count = txt.Length - shingle; i <= count; i++)
{
string sub = txt.Substring(i, shingle);
if (!dic.ContainsKey(sub))
dic.Add(sub, i);
else
{
patternExists = true;
int index0 = dic[sub];
if (index0 >= 0)
{
dicIndexSize[index0] = shingle;
dic[sub] = -1;
}
}
}
if (!patternExists)
break;
}
List<int> lst = dicIndexSize.Keys.ToList();
lst.Sort((a, b) => dicIndexSize[b].CompareTo(dicIndexSize[a]));
BitArray ba = new BitArray(txt.Length);
foreach (int i in lst)
{
bool ok = true;
int len = dicIndexSize[i];
for (int j = i, max = i + len; j < max; j++)
{
if (ok) ok = !ba.Get(j);
ba.Set(j, true);
}
if (ok)
yield return txt.Substring(i, len);
}
}
Text in this book took 3.4sec in my computer.

Suffix arrays are the right idea, but there's a non-trivial piece missing, namely, identifying what are known in the literature as "supermaximal repeats". Here's a GitHub repo with working code: https://github.com/eisenstatdavid/commonsub . Suffix array construction uses the SAIS library, vendored in as a submodule. The supermaximal repeats are found using a corrected version of the pseudocode from findsmaxr in Efficient repeat finding via suffix arrays
(Becher–Deymonnaz–Heiber).
static void FindRepeatedStrings(void) {
// findsmaxr from https://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.0528.pdf
printf("[");
bool needComma = false;
int up = -1;
for (int i = 1; i < Len; i++) {
if (LongCommPre[i - 1] < LongCommPre[i]) {
up = i;
continue;
}
if (LongCommPre[i - 1] == LongCommPre[i] || up < 0) continue;
for (int k = up - 1; k < i; k++) {
if (SufArr[k] == 0) continue;
unsigned char c = Buf[SufArr[k] - 1];
if (Set[c] == i) goto skip;
Set[c] = i;
}
if (needComma) {
printf("\n,");
}
printf("\"");
for (int j = 0; j < LongCommPre[up]; j++) {
unsigned char c = Buf[SufArr[up] + j];
if (iscntrl(c)) {
printf("\\u%.4x", c);
} else if (c == '\"' || c == '\\') {
printf("\\%c", c);
} else {
printf("%c", c);
}
}
printf("\"");
needComma = true;
skip:
up = -1;
}
printf("\n]\n");
}
Here's a sample output on the text of the first paragraph:
Davids-MBP:commonsub eisen$ ./repsub input
["\u000a"
," S"
," as "
," co"
," ide"
," in "
," li"
," n"
," p"
," the "
," us"
," ve"
," w"
,"\""
,"–"
,"("
,")"
,". "
,"0"
,"He"
,"Suffix array"
,"`"
,"a su"
,"at "
,"code"
,"com"
,"ct"
,"do"
,"e f"
,"ec"
,"ed "
,"ei"
,"ent"
,"ere's a "
,"find"
,"her"
,"https://"
,"ib"
,"ie"
,"ing "
,"ion "
,"is"
,"ith"
,"iv"
,"k"
,"mon"
,"na"
,"no"
,"nst"
,"ons"
,"or"
,"pdf"
,"ri"
,"s are "
,"se"
,"sing"
,"sub"
,"supermaximal repeats"
,"te"
,"ti"
,"tr"
,"ub "
,"uffix arrays"
,"via"
,"y, "
]

I would use Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm (linear time complexity O(n)) to find substrings. I would try to find the largest substring pattern, remove it from the input string and try to find the second largest and so on. I would do something like this:
string pattern = input.substring(0,lenght/2);
string toMatchString = input.substring(pattern.length, input.lenght - 1);
List<string> matches = new List<string>();
while(pattern.lenght > 0)
{
int index = KMP(pattern, toMatchString);
if(index > 0)
{
matches.Add(pattern);
// remove the matched pattern occurences from the input string
// I would do something like this:
// 0 to pattern.lenght gets removed
// check for all occurences of pattern in toMatchString and remove them
// get the remaing shrinked input, reassign values for pattern & toMatchString
// keep looking for the next largest substring
}
else
{
pattern = input.substring(0, pattern.lenght - 1);
toMatchString = input.substring(pattern.length, input.lenght - 1);
}
}
Where KMP implements Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm. You can find the Java implementations of it at Github or Princeton or write it yourself.
PS: I don't code in Java and it is quick try to my first bounty about to close soon. So please don't give me the stick if I missed something trivial or made a +/-1 error.

Java - Counting how many characters show up in another string

I am comparing two strings, in Java, to see how many characters from the first string show up in the second string. The following is some expectations:
matchingChars("AC", "BA") → 1
matchingChars("ABBA", "B") → 2
matchingChars("B", "ABBA") → 1
My approach is as follows:
public int matchingChars(String str1, String str2) {
int count = 0;
for (int a = 0; a < str1.length(); a++)
{
for (int b = 0; b < str2.length(); b++)
{ char str1Char = str1.charAt(a);
char str2Char = str2.charAt(b);
if (str1Char == str2Char)
{ count++;
str1 = str1.replace(str1Char, '0');
}
}
}
return count;
}
I know my approach is not the best, but I think it should do it. However, for
matchingChars("ABBA", "B") → 2
My code yields "1" instead of "2". Does anyone have any suggestion or advice? Thank you very much.

Assuming that comparing "AABBB" with "AAAABBBCCC" should return 15 (2*3 + 3*3 + 0*3) then:
For each string make a Map from the character of the string to the count of characters.
Compute the intersection of the keysets for the two maps.
For each element in the keyset accumulate the product of the values. Print the result.
This is linear in the size of the two strings.

Is it ok to supply working code on homework problems?
public long testStringCount() {
String a = "AABBBCCC";
String b = "AAABBBDDDDD";
Map<Character,Integer> aMap = mapIt(a);
Map<Character,Integer> bMap = mapIt(b);
Set<Character> chars = Sets.newHashSet(aMap.keySet());
chars.addAll(bMap.keySet());
long result = 0;
for (Character c : chars) {
Integer ac = aMap.get(c);
Integer bc = bMap.get(c);
if (null != ac && null != bc) {
result += ac*bc;
}
}
return result;
}
private Map<Character, Integer> mapIt(String a) {
Map<Character,Integer> result = Maps.newHashMap();
for (int i = 0; i < a.length(); i++) {
Character c = a.charAt(i);
Integer x = result.get(c);
if (null == x) {
x = 0;
}
x++;
result.put(c, x);
}
return result;
}

Clearly you have to make sure you only count unique characters from string 1. You're double-counting B because you're counting B's twice, once for each occurrence in string 1.

Well your code is only showing 1 because of this line:
str1 = str1.replace(str1Char, '0');
That's turning "ABBA" into "A00A" - so the second B doesn't get seen.
Perhaps you should turn the second string into a HashSet<Character> instead... then you could just use something like:
int count = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < str1.length; i++)
{
if (otherSet.contains(str1.charAt(i))
{
count++;
}
}
It's not clear what result you want to get from "ABBA" / "CBCB" - if it's 2 (because there are 2 Bs) then the above approach will work. If it's 4 (because each of the 2 Bs in the first string matches 2 Bs in the second string) then all you need to do is get rid of your replace call.
EDIT: With the clarifications, it sounds like you could just do this:
for (int a = 0; a < str1.length(); a++)
{
for (int b = 0; b < str2.length(); b++)
{
if (str1.charAt(a) == str2.charAt(b))
{
count++;
// Terminate the inner loop which is iterating over str2,
// and move on to the next character in str1
break;
}
}
}

Your solution works, but is quadratic. If all characters are below 256, then you can do something like this:
int matching(String s1, String s2) {
int[] count1 = frequencies(s1);
int[] count2 = frequencies(s2);
sum = 0;
for(int i = 0; i< 256; i++) {
sum += count1[i]*count2[i] != 0 ? Math.max(count1[i], count2[i]) : 0;
}
return sum;
}
int[] frequencies(String s) {
int[] ret = new int[256];
for(char c : s) {
int[c]+=1;
}
}
Otherwise, you'll need a multiset.

Permutate a String to upper and lower case

I have a string, "abc". How would a program look like (if possible, in Java) who permute the String?
For example:
abc
ABC
Abc
aBc
abC
ABc
abC
AbC

Something like this should do the trick:
void printPermutations(String text) {
char[] chars = text.toCharArray();
for (int i = 0, n = (int) Math.pow(2, chars.length); i < n; i++) {
char[] permutation = new char[chars.length];
for (int j =0; j < chars.length; j++) {
permutation[j] = (isBitSet(i, j)) ? Character.toUpperCase(chars[j]) : chars[j];
}
System.out.println(permutation);
}
}
boolean isBitSet(int n, int offset) {
return (n >> offset & 1) != 0;
}

As you probably already know, the number of possible different combinations is 2^n, where n equals the length of the input string.
Since n could theoretically be fairly large, there's a chance that 2^n will exceed the capacity of a primitive type such as an int. (The user may have to wait a few years for all of the combinations to finish printing, but that's their business.)
Instead, let's use a bit vector to hold all of the possible combinations. We'll set the number of bits equal to n and initialize them all to 1. For example, if the input string is "abcdefghij", the initial bit vector values will be {1111111111}.
For every combination, we simply have to loop through all of the characters in the input string and set each one to uppercase if its corresponding bit is a 1, else set it to lowercase. We then decrement the bit vector and repeat.
For example, the process would look like this for an input of "abc":
Bits:   Corresponding Combo:
111    ABC
110    ABc
101    AbC
100    Abc
011    aBC
010    aBc
001    abC
000    abc
By using a loop rather than a recursive function call, we also avoid the possibility of a stack overflow exception occurring on large input strings.
Here is the actual implementation:
import java.util.BitSet;
public void PrintCombinations(String input) {
char[] currentCombo = input.toCharArray();
// Create a bit vector the same length as the input, and set all of the bits to 1
BitSet bv = new BitSet(input.length());
bv.set(0, currentCombo.length);
// While the bit vector still has some bits set
while(!bv.isEmpty()) {
// Loop through the array of characters and set each one to uppercase or lowercase,
// depending on whether its corresponding bit is set
for(int i = 0; i < currentCombo.length; ++i) {
if(bv.get(i)) // If the bit is set
currentCombo[i] = Character.toUpperCase(currentCombo[i]);
else
currentCombo[i] = Character.toLowerCase(currentCombo[i]);
}
// Print the current combination
System.out.println(currentCombo);
// Decrement the bit vector
DecrementBitVector(bv, currentCombo.length);
}
// Now the bit vector contains all zeroes, which corresponds to all of the letters being lowercase.
// Simply print the input as lowercase for the final combination
System.out.println(input.toLowerCase());
}
public void DecrementBitVector(BitSet bv, int numberOfBits) {
int currentBit = numberOfBits - 1;
while(currentBit >= 0) {
bv.flip(currentBit);
// If the bit became a 0 when we flipped it, then we're done.
// Otherwise we have to continue flipping bits
if(!bv.get(currentBit))
break;
currentBit--;
}
}

String str = "Abc";
str = str.toLowerCase();
int numOfCombos = 1 << str.length();
for (int i = 0; i < numOfCombos; i++) {
char[] combinations = str.toCharArray();
for (int j = 0; j < str.length(); j++) {
if (((i >> j) & 1) == 1 ) {
combinations[j] = Character.toUpperCase(str.charAt(j));
}
}
System.out.println(new String(combinations));
}

You can also use backtracking to solve this problem:
public List<String> letterCasePermutation(String S) {
List<String> result = new ArrayList<>();
backtrack(0 , S, "", result);
return result;
}
private void backtrack(int start, String s, String temp, List<String> result) {
if(start >= s.length()) {
result.add(temp);
return;
}
char c = s.charAt(start);
if(!Character.isAlphabetic(c)) {
backtrack(start + 1, s, temp + c, result);
return;
}
if(Character.isUpperCase(c)) {
backtrack(start + 1, s, temp + c, result);
c = Character.toLowerCase(c);
backtrack(start + 1, s, temp + c, result);
}
else {
backtrack(start + 1, s, temp + c, result);
c = Character.toUpperCase(c);
backtrack(start + 1, s, temp + c, result);
}
}

Please find here the code snippet for the above :
public class StringPerm {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String str = "abc";
String[] f = permute(str);
for (int x = 0; x < f.length; x++) {
System.out.println(f[x]);
}
}
public static String[] permute(String str) {
String low = str.toLowerCase();
String up = str.toUpperCase();
char[] l = low.toCharArray();
char u[] = up.toCharArray();
String[] f = new String[10];
f[0] = low;
f[1] = up;
int k = 2;
char[] temp = new char[low.length()];
for (int i = 0; i < l.length; i++)
{
temp[i] = l[i];
for (int j = 0; j < u.length; j++)
{
if (i != j) {
temp[j] = u[j];
}
}
f[k] = new String(temp);
k++;
}
for (int i = 0; i < u.length; i++)
{
temp[i] = u[i];
for (int j = 0; j < l.length; j++)
{
if (i != j) {
temp[j] = l[j];
}
}
f[k] = new String(temp);
k++;
}
return f;
}
}

You can do something like
```
import java.util.*;
public class MyClass {
public static void main(String args[]) {
String n=(args[0]);
HashSet<String>rs = new HashSet();
helper(rs,n,0,n.length()-1);
System.out.println(rs);
}
public static void helper(HashSet<String>rs,String res , int l, int n)
{
if(l>n)
return;
for(int i=l;i<=n;i++)
{
res=swap(res,i);
rs.add(res);
helper(rs,res,l+1,n);
res=swap(res,i);
}
}
public static String swap(String st,int i)
{
char c = st.charAt(i);
char ch[]=st.toCharArray();
if(Character.isUpperCase(c))
{
c=Character.toLowerCase(c);
}
else if(Character.isLowerCase(c))
{
c=Character.toUpperCase(c);
}
ch[i]=c;
return new String(ch);
}
}
```