From 708d64c18341c9f8b3886d6a39d6abecfa196e58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dhawal Kapil <dhawalkapil@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:13:51 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] BAEL-8901 Add section in "Stream operations on Strings"
 article

- Added string array to map example.
---
 .../com/baeldung/string/JoinerSplitter.java     |  8 ++++++++
 .../baeldung/string/JoinerSplitterUnitTest.java | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/java-strings/src/main/java/com/baeldung/string/JoinerSplitter.java b/java-strings/src/main/java/com/baeldung/string/JoinerSplitter.java
index 085be66801..cdbba1ef53 100644
--- a/java-strings/src/main/java/com/baeldung/string/JoinerSplitter.java
+++ b/java-strings/src/main/java/com/baeldung/string/JoinerSplitter.java
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package com.baeldung.string;
 
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 import java.util.stream.Stream;
 
@@ -32,5 +33,12 @@ public class JoinerSplitter {
 				.mapToObj(item -> (char) item)
 				.collect(Collectors.toList());
 	}
+	
+	public static Map<String, String> arrayToMap(String[] arrayOfString) {
+		return Arrays.asList(arrayOfString)
+				.stream()
+				.map(str -> str.split(":"))
+				.collect(Collectors.<String[], String, String>toMap(str -> str[0], str -> str[1]));
+	}
 		
 }
diff --git a/java-strings/src/test/java/com/baeldung/string/JoinerSplitterUnitTest.java b/java-strings/src/test/java/com/baeldung/string/JoinerSplitterUnitTest.java
index 8901bcf9db..a9488e27a4 100644
--- a/java-strings/src/test/java/com/baeldung/string/JoinerSplitterUnitTest.java
+++ b/java-strings/src/test/java/com/baeldung/string/JoinerSplitterUnitTest.java
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ package com.baeldung.string;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
 
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 
@@ -62,5 +64,20 @@ public class JoinerSplitterUnitTest {
         assertEquals(result, expectation);
 
     }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenStringArray_transformedToStream_convertToMap() {
+
+        String[] programming_languages = new String[] {"language:java","os:linux","editor:emacs"};
+        
+        Map<String,String> expectation=new HashMap<>();
+        expectation.put("language", "java");
+        expectation.put("os", "linux");
+        expectation.put("editor", "emacs");
+        
+        Map<String, String> result = JoinerSplitter.arrayToMap(programming_languages);
+        assertEquals(result, expectation);
+        
+    }
 
 }