public class DupChars { public static void main(String[] args) { String sentence = "How many duplicates are there?"; System.out.println(sentence); String characters = ""; String duplicates = ""; for (int i = 0; i < sentence.length(); i++) { String current = Character.toString(sentence.charAt(i)); if (characters.contains(current)) { if (!duplicates.contains(current)) { duplicates += current + ","; } } characters += current; } System.out.println(duplicates); } }