The code was very verbose.

Now it is simplified without sacrificing accuracy.

Author: ayush314

Others/CountChar.java

@@ -4,10 +4,9 @@
 
 
 /**
- * @author Kyler Smith, 2017
+ * @author blast314
  * <p>
- * Implementation of a character count.
- * (Slow, could be improved upon, effectively O(n).
+ * Counts the number of characters in the text.
  */
 
 public class CountChar {
@@ -24,21 +23,8 @@ public static void main(String[] args) {
  * @param str: String to count the characters
  * @return int: Number of characters in the passed string
  */
-
  private static int CountCharacters(String str) {
-
- int count = 0;
-
- if (str == "" || str == null) {
- return 0;
- }
-
- for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {
- if (!Character.isWhitespace(str.charAt(i))) {
- count++;
- }
- }
-
- return count;
+ str = str.replaceAll("\\s","");
+ return str.length();
  }
 }