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Use of String Tokeniser to get data after second occurrence of "_"

 
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Hello ,
Could someone point me to how I could get data that exists after the second
occurrence of the delimiter "_".

Here is what I have :


I always seem to get "lmn" when I want to return "b"

Also if I specify input string as "lmn_a" - would it be possible to return null or an empty string ?

Thanks ,
-anagha
 
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You're calling the nextToken method only once, which is why you get "lmn" instead of "b". Try something like this instead:
 
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