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Java

Is there a way to define if something is a word?

Do you know anything like a 'isWord()', or something?

2 Answers

Ken Alger
STAFF
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Isaiah;

Can you define what you are attempt to achieve?

Ken

I am trying to define in this workspace if args is a word.

Thomas Nilsen
Thomas Nilsen
14,957 Points

You could do something like this:

Object foo = "";

if( foo instanceof String ) {
    System.out.print("It is a string");
}