How to count uppercase, lowercase, special characters, and numeric values using RegEx in Kotlin

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fun countCharacters(text: String): Quad {
    val uppercase = Regex("[A-Z]").findAll(text).count()
    val lowercase = Regex("[a-z]").findAll(text).count()
    val digits    = Regex("\\d").findAll(text).count()
    val special   = Regex("[^A-Za-z0-9]").findAll(text).count()

    return Quad(uppercase, lowercase, digits, special)
}

data class Quad(
    val uppercase: Int,
    val lowercase: Int,
    val digits: Int,
    val special: Int
)

fun main() {
    val s = "Programming&AI@2026!"

    val (u, l, d, spc) = countCharacters(s)

    println("Uppercase: $u")
    println("Lowercase: $l")
    println("Digits: $d")
    println("Special characters: $spc")
}



/*
run:

Uppercase: 3
Lowercase: 10
Digits: 4
Special characters: 3

*/

 



answered Feb 20 by avibootz

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