那么下面的递归算法呢?这也是线性时间。

import java.lang.*;
import java.util.*;

class longestSubstr{

public static void main(String[] args){
   String s="ABDEFGABEF";


   int ans=calc(s);

   System.out.println("Max nonrepeating seq= "+ans);

}

public static int calc(String s)
{//s.s
      int n=s.length();
      int max=1;
      if(n==1)
          return 1;
      if(n==2)
      {
          if(s.charAt(0)==s.charAt(1)) return 1;
          else return 2;


      }
      String s1=s;
    String a=s.charAt(n-1)+"";
          s1=s1.replace(a,"");
         // System.out.println(s+" "+(n-2)+" "+s.substring(0,n-1));
         max=Math.max(calc(s.substring(0,n-1)),(calc(s1)+1));


return max;
}


}


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一个简短的例子是

String text = "a.b.c.d";
int count = text.split("\\.",-1).length-1;

不确定这样做的效率，但这是我在不引入第三方库的情况下所能写的最短代码:

public static int numberOf(String target, String content)
{
    return (content.split(target).length - 1);
}

得到答案最简单的方法如下:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    String string = "a.b.c.d";
    String []splitArray = string.split("\\.",-1);
    System.out.println("No of . chars is : " + (splitArray.length-1));
}

在代码的某个地方，某些东西必须循环。解决这个问题的唯一方法是完全展开循环:

int numDots = 0;
if (s.charAt(0) == '.') {
    numDots++;
}

if (s.charAt(1) == '.') {
    numDots++;
}


if (s.charAt(2) == '.') {
    numDots++;
}

.．.等等，但你是在源代码编辑器中手动执行循环的人——而不是运行它的计算机。请看伪代码:

create a project
position = 0
while (not end of string) {
    write check for character at position "position" (see above)
}
write code to output variable "numDots"
compile program
hand in homework
do not think of the loop that your "if"s may have been optimized and compiled to

我对此的“惯用语”是:

int count = StringUtils.countMatches("a.b.c.d", ".");

既然已经是通用语言了，为什么还要自己写呢?

Spring Framework的线性程序是:

int occurance = StringUtils.countOccurrencesOf("a.b.c.d", ".");