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I have written a program where the total number of special characters are to be counted
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ZurdoDev 28-May-20 11:17am    
It just depends on what you mean by special.

No, a whitespace does not seem to be considered as "special" (if, by that, you mean a character which has to be escaped, or a character which is not a representable glyph).
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Member 14846438 28-May-20 11:22am    
by special i mean as those special characters like parentheses,dollar sign,etc.
Like-$,%,^,&,etc.
phil.o 28-May-20 11:38am    
I cannot see why $, %, ^, &, etc. would be special; they are all representable glyphs. So is whitespace, even if this glyph actually is blank.
So, what exactly is your definition of special? Do you mean a character which is not a letter nor a digit? A whitespace is not a letter nor a digit, but it is printable.
Member 14846438 28-May-20 12:33pm    
yes by special i mean to say characters which are neither numbers nor letters.
phil.o 28-May-20 12:41pm    
In this case, you have to count whitespaces in the function determining how many 'special' characters there are.
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is whitespace a special character in java?

Yes, white space is special as it separate keywords in a program, and this for about any other programming language too.
No, white space in a string is perfectly legit and have no special meaning.
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I have written a program where the total number of special characters are to be counted

You forgot to tell if you expect white spaces to be counted or not, and you forgot to tell if result is what you expect or not.
Only your code can tell what is counted as special character or not, but you didn't showed.
 
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Member 14846438 28-May-20 12:42pm    
the question says to count the total number of special characters entered until the users enters an alphabet.So,in this program should i count whitespace as a special character or not because whitespace is neither a number nor a letter?
Patrice T 28-May-20 13:32pm    
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