java取字符串的第一个字符串,从Java中的字符串中获取第一个字母的最佳方法是什么，以长度为1的字符串形式返回？...

Assume the following:

String example = "something";

String firstLetter = "";

Are there differences to be aware of with the following ways of assigning firstLetter that could impact performance; which would be best, and why?

firstLetter = String.valueOf(example.charAt(0));

firstLetter = Character.toString(example.charAt(0));

firstLetter = example.substring(0, 1);

The reason the first letter is being returned as a String is that this is being run in Hadoop, and a string is required to assign to a Text type, firstLetter will be output as a key from a map() method, for example:

public class FirstLetterMapper extends Mapper {

String line = new String();

Text firstLetter = new Text();

IntWritable wordLength = new IntWritable();

@Override

public void map(LongWritable key, Text value, Context context)

throws IOException, InterruptedException {

line = value.toString();

for (String word : line.split("\\W+")){

if (word.length() > 0) {

// ---------------------------------------------

// firstLetter assignment

firstLetter.set(String.valueOf(word.charAt(0)).toLowerCase());

// ---------------------------------------------

wordLength.set(word.length());

context.write(firstLetter, wordLength);

}

}

}

}

解决方案

Performance wise substring(0, 1) is better as found by following:

String example = "something";

String firstLetter = "";

long l=System.nanoTime();

firstLetter = String.valueOf(example.charAt(0));

System.out.println("String.valueOf: "+ (System.nanoTime()-l));

l=System.nanoTime();

firstLetter = Character.toString(example.charAt(0));

System.out.println("Character.toString: "+ (System.nanoTime()-l));

l=System.nanoTime();

firstLetter = example.substring(0, 1);

System.out.println("substring: "+ (System.nanoTime()-l));

Output:

String.valueOf: 38553

Character.toString: 30451

substring: 8660