Check whether the given String is a valid identifier according to the Java Language specifications. : Identifier « Reflection « Java

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Check whether the given String is a valid identifier according to the Java Language specifications.
    
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLDecoder;
import java.util.Map;


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public class Main{
  /**
   * Check whether the given String is a valid identifier according
   * to the Java Language specifications.
   *
   * See The Java Language Specification Second Edition, Section 3.8
   * for the definition of what is a valid identifier.
   *
   @param s String to check
   *
   @return <code>true</code> if the given String is a valid Java
   *         identifier, <code>false</code> otherwise.
   */
  public final static boolean isValidJavaIdentifier(String s)
  {
     // an empty or null string cannot be a valid identifier
     if (s == null || s.length() == 0)
     {
        return false;
     }

     char[] c = s.toCharArray();
     if (!Character.isJavaIdentifierStart(c[0]))
     {
        return false;
     }

     for (int i = 1; i < c.length; i++)
     {
        if (!Character.isJavaIdentifierPart(c[i]))
        {
           return false;
        }
     }

     return true;
  }



}

   
    
    
    
  














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