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();
     }
 }