Java Program to Remove Duplicate Words from String

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In this post, we will write a Java program to count a number of duplicate words in a given string.
In this post, we will discuss two ways, we can write the program to count a number of duplicate words in given String.
  • How to remove duplicate words from String in Java?
  • How to remove duplicate words from String using Java 8?

How to remove duplicate words from String in Java?

package com.javaguides.strings.examples;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * Java Program to Count Number of Duplicate Words in Given String
 * @author javaguides.net
 *
 */
public class RemoveDuplicateWordsFromString {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String string = "i like java java coding java and you do you interested in java coding coding.";

        System.out.println("Original String: ");
        System.out.println(string);
        /*
         * Since the words are separated by space, we will split the string by
         * one or more space
         */

        final String[] strWords = string.split("\\s+");

        // convert String array to LinkedHashSet to remove duplicates
        final Set < String > setOfWords = new LinkedHashSet < String > (Arrays.asList(strWords));

        // join the words again by space
        final StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
        int index = 0;

        for (String s: setOfWords) {

            if (index > 0)
                builder.append(" ");

            builder.append(s);
            index++;
        }

        string = builder.toString();

        System.out.println("String after removing duplicate words: ");
        System.out.println(string);

    }
}
Output:
Original String: 
i like java java coding java and you do you interested in java coding coding.
String after removing duplicate words: 
i like java coding and you do interested in coding.

How to remove duplicate words from String using Java 8?

Input for below program:
String string = "i like java java coding java and you do you interested in java coding coding.";

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

/**
 * Java Program to Count Number of Duplicate Words in Given String using java 8
 * 
 * @author javaguides.net
 *
 */
public class RemoveDuplicateWordsFromString {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

         String string = "i like java java coding java and you do you interested in java coding coding.";

         string = Arrays.stream(string.split("\\s+")).distinct().collect(Collectors.joining(" "));

         System.out.println(string);

    }
}
Output:
i like java coding and you do interested in coding.
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