String parsing

[Karthik Rallapalli]

I have a String a=";345;34567;43556;"

I need to parse it in to a string array with {"345","34567","43556"}

I tried using the split method but i am not getting the desired results.
Please help me.

Karthik

[Stan James]

Show us what you did with split (some code) and what you got.

I like to use delimited strings like this one, with the delimiter first. When you make the string you can choose any delimiter you like. When you parse the string you take the first character for the delimiter. So much cooler than trying to hard code a delimiter character. You can nest strings and all kinds of fun things.

That said, ask yourself if the leading delimiter is causing your problem. You might have to take it off to make split do what you like.

Pulling parts out of strings is so much fun that Java gives you many ways to do it. Look at StringTokenizer, String.split (you're already there), Pattern & Matcher, and Scanner for some options. And there is always indexOf() and substring() if you really want to do it yourself.

[K Riaz]

import java.util.StringTokenizer;
 
 class StringFun
 {
 public static void main(String args[]){
 
String a=";345;34567;43556;";
 
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(a, ";");
String[] myArray = new String[st.countTokens()];
 
int x = 0;
while (st.hasMoreTokens())
{
myArray[x] = st.nextToken(); x++;
}
 
//Tokens now in myArray

 }
 }

Your welcome.
[ February 17, 2005: Message edited by: Kashif Riaz ]