You are not removing the character at index i, you are replacing the character at index i
with 0, that false assumption breaks your algorithm.
Delete a character by index from a character array with StringBuilder
String mystring = "inflation != stealing";
char[] my_char_array = mystring.toCharArray();
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.append(mystring);
sb.deleteCharAt(10);
my_char_array = sb.toString().toCharArray();
System.out.println(my_char_array); //prints "inflation = stealing"
The above code removes the exclamation mark from the character array.
Roll your own java function to remove a character from a character array:
String msg = "johnny can't program, he can only be told what to type";
char[] mychararray = msg.toCharArray();
mychararray = remove_one_character_from_a_character_array_in_java(mychararray, 21);
System.out.println(mychararray);
public char[] remove_one_character_from_a_character_array_in_java(
char[] original,
int location_to_remove)
{
char[] result = new char[original.length-1];
int last_insert = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < original.length; i++){
if (i == location_to_remove)
i++;
result[last_insert++] = original[i];
}
return result;
}
//The above method prints the message with the index removed.