Java Program to Find Minimum Occurring Character in a String

Write a Java Program to Find Minimum Occurring Character in a String with an example. First, we declared the charFreq integer array of given string length. Next, we converted the minOccStr string to minOccArr character array using toCharArray. Next, assigned the first character as the minchar.

The first for loop is used to assign the character frequency to charFreq array. The other for loop is to find the minimum occurrence of a character.

import java.util.Scanner;

public class MinOccurChar1 {
	private static Scanner sc;
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		String minOccStr;
		int i, min;
		
		sc= new Scanner(System.in);

		System.out.print("\nEnter String to find Minimum Char Occurrence =  ");
		minOccStr = sc.nextLine();
		
		int[] charFreq = new int[minOccStr.length()];
		char[] minOccArr = minOccStr.toCharArray();
		char minChar = minOccStr.charAt(0);
		
		for(i = 0; i < minOccArr.length; i++)
		{
			charFreq[i] = 1;
			for(int j = i + 1; j < minOccArr.length; j++) {
				if(minOccArr[i] == minOccArr[j] && minOccArr[i] != ' ' && minOccArr[i] != '0') {
					charFreq[i]++;
					minOccArr[j] = '0';
				}
			}		
		}
		min = charFreq[0];
		for(i = 0; i < charFreq.length; i++) 
		{
			if(min > charFreq[i] && charFreq[i] != '0') {
				min = charFreq[i];
				minChar = minOccArr[i];
			}
		}
		System.out.println("\nThe Minimum Occurring Character = " +  minChar);
		System.out.format("'%c' Character Occurs %d Times ", minChar, min);			
	}
}

Java Program to Find Minimum Occurring Character in a String Example 2

import java.util.Scanner;

public class MinOccurChar2 {
	private static Scanner sc;
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		String minOccStr;
		int i, min = 0;
		int[] charFreq = new int[256];
		
		sc= new Scanner(System.in);

		System.out.print("\nEnter String to find Minimum Char Occurrence =  ");
		minOccStr = sc.nextLine();
		
		for(i = 0; i < minOccStr.length(); i++)
		{
			charFreq[minOccStr.charAt(i)]++;
		}
		for(i = 0; i < 256; i++) 
		{
			if(charFreq[i] != 0) {
				if(charFreq[min] == 0 || charFreq[i] < charFreq[min]) {
					min = i;
				}
			}
		}
		System.out.format("\nThe Minimum Occurring Character = %c",  min);
		System.out.format("\n'%c' Character Occurs %d Times ", min, charFreq[min]);	
	}
}

Enter String to find Minimum Char Occurrence =  java

The Minimum Occurring Character = j
'j' Character Occurs 1 Times

This Java program to return minimum occurred string character is the same as the above. Here, we separated the logic using Java functions.

import java.util.Scanner;

public class MinOccurChar3 {
	private static Scanner sc;
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		String minOccStr;
		
		sc= new Scanner(System.in);

		System.out.print("\nEnter String to find Minimum Char Occurrence =  ");
		minOccStr = sc.nextLine();
		
		minimumCharOccurence(minOccStr);
	}

	public static void minimumCharOccurence(String minOccStr) {
		int i, min = 0;
		int[] charFreq = new int[256];
		
		for(i = 0; i < minOccStr.length(); i++)
		{
			charFreq[minOccStr.charAt(i)]++;
		}
		for(i = 0; i < 256; i++) 
		{
			if(charFreq[i] != 0) {
				if(charFreq[min] == 0 || charFreq[i] < charFreq[min]) {
					min = i;
				}
			}
		}
		System.out.format("\nThe Minimum Occurring Character = %c",  min);
		System.out.format("\n'%c' Character Occurs %d Times ", min, charFreq[min]);			
	}
}

Enter String to find Minimum Char Occurrence =  tutorialgateway

The Minimum Occurring Character = e
'e' Character Occurs 1 Times

Please refer to the following string programs.