How to print duplicate words in a sentence using Selenium WebDriver?

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Permalink Reply by Anand Singh on January 9, 2018 at 7:06pm

Hi Madhavi,

You can use the below method to find the duplicate words in a sentence

Find the sentence using webdriver.findElement(By.xpath(locator))and use the below method by passing string as parameter.

/** * Method to find duplicate words in a Sentence or String */
public Set<String> duplicateWordsInSentence(String sentence) {
if (sentence == null || sentence.isEmpty()) {
return Collections.emptySet();
}
Set<String> duplicates = new HashSet<String>();
String[] words = sentence.split("\\s+");
Set<String> set = new HashSet<String>();
for (String word : words) {
if (!set.add(word)) {
duplicates.add(word);

}
}
return duplicates;
}

Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Madhavi Latha on January 12, 2018 at 11:29am

Thanks Anand. It works fine.

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Permalink Reply by Anand Singh on February 25, 2021 at 3:57pm

Most software testing company asks these type of questions when hiring any new engineers to test their logical thinking.

So to get duplicate words from a sentence, first locate the sentence using the findElements & grab the text of the web element & put it into the String & then use the below-mentioned login in Java to bring the duplicate words.

package javaAutomation;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class Count_Duplicate_words {

public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

WebDriver driver;
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "c://selenium//chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("https://selenium.dev");
String string = driver
.findElement(By.xpath("//p[contains(text(),'If you want to create robust, browser-based regres')]"))
.getText();

System.out.println(string);
int count;

// Converts the string into lowercase
string = string.toLowerCase();

// Split the string into words using built-in function
String words[] = string.split(" ");

System.out.println("Duplicate words in a given string : ");
for (int i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
count = 1;
for (int j = i + 1; j < words.length; j++) {
if (words[i].equals(words[j])) {
count++;
// Set words[j] to 0 to avoid printing visited word
words[j] = "0";
}
}

// Displays the duplicate word if count is greater than 1
if (count > 1 && words[i] != "0")
System.out.println(words[i]);
}

driver.close();

}

}

Please do let me know if there's any doubt.

Thanks

Angad

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