How to convert Set containing values into string

algorithm, collections, hashset, java, set

Solution

 public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        String str = "abcdaa";
        dups(str);
    }

    public static void dups(String str) {
        HashSet<Character> hs = new HashSet<Character>();
        char[] ch = str.toCharArray();
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        for (int i = 0; i < ch.length; i++) {
            if(hs.add(ch[i])){
                sb.append(ch[i]);
            }
        }
        System.out.println(sb);
    }

EDIT

public static void dups(String str) {
            HashSet<Character> hs = new HashSet<Character>();
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            for (Character character : str.toCharArray()) {
                if(hs.add(character)){
                    sb.append(character);
                }
            }
            System.out.println(sb);
        }

I can't think a better way to do this... It's better use StringBuilder instead of String, check this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/1532483/6949032

Problem

``` public static void main(String[] args) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub String str = "abcdaa"; dups(str); } public static void dups(String str){ HashSet hs = new HashSet(); char[] ch = str.toCharArray(); for(int i=0; i < ch.length;i++){ hs.add(ch[i]); } System.out.println(hs); } ``` The above code return Output: [a,b,c,d] But I want to print the Set values into a string so I can return a string value return value looks like this:Expected Output: abcd

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