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Author: Mcbencrafter

snippets/java/string-manipulation/find-longest-word.md

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+---
+title: Find Longest Word
+description: Returns the longest word in a string
+author: Mcbencrafter
+tags: string,length,words
+---
+
+```java
+public static String findLongestWord(String text) {
+    String[] words = text.split("\\s+");
+    String longestWord = words[0];
+    
+    for (String word : words) {
+        if (word.length() <= longestWord.length())
+            continue;
+            
+        longestWord = word;
+    }
+
+    return longestWord;
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(findLongestWord("hello world123")); // "world123"
+```

snippets/java/string-manipulation/find-unique-characters.md

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+---
+Title: Find Unique Characters
+Description: Returns a set of unique characters from a string, with options to include spaces and control case sensitivity
+Author: Mcbencrafter
+Tags: string,unique,characters,case-sensitive
+---
+
+```java
+public static Set<Character> findUniqueCharacters(String text, boolean countSpaces, boolean caseSensitive) {
+    Set<Character> uniqueCharacters = new TreeSet<>();
+    
+    for (char character : text.toCharArray()) {
+        if (character == ' ' && !countSpaces)
+            continue;
+        if (!caseSensitive)
+            character = Character.toLowerCase(character);
+        uniqueCharacters.add(character);
+    }
+    
+    return uniqueCharacters;
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(findUniqueCharacters("hello world", false, true)); // Output: [d, e, h, l, o, r, w]
+```