Colouring specific letters in a String?

Question

I am trying to change the colour of all 'A's in the string to green and all 'Z's in the string to red colour. I have a string as:

String input = "LENGTH OF THIS STRING IS GREATER THAN ZERO";

I want to output it on the screen (in SWING, see comments) with all letters 'A' colored to green and 'Z' colored to red.

possible duplicate of [How to color System.out.println output?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1448858/how-to-color-system-out-println-output) — Axel, Jun 05 '14 at 08:45
Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1448858/how-to-color-system-out-println-output — Axel, Jun 05 '14 at 08:46
possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13074428/how-can-i-set-each-character-to-a-different-color-background-color-in-a-jtextpan — Am_I_Helpful, Jun 05 '14 at 08:46
Ok, so this is swing. You should have told from the start. You should post the code you already have because there are different ways to draw text in Swing. — Axel, Jun 05 '14 at 08:47
In that case, you can probably find the answer you want in [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/q/6635730) — Dawood ibn Kareem, Jun 05 '14 at 08:48
I haven't written any specific code yet. I have been trying to find any way...but only found html codes for it, which I could not comprehend. I wanted something in java language, so need help — Rozeena Arif Hussain, Jun 05 '14 at 08:49

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 05 '14 at 09:16

If you are using a Swing component (JLabel, JButton, J...) then you should use some HTML in your Swing component.

button = new JButton("<html><b><u>T</u>wo</b><br>lines</html>");

So you can do whatever you want with your text !

I guess this is not the case, but you can also want to 'draw' your text in Canvas, then you should read the documentation about Java2D API

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