Break a string with special characters into segments with only text no spec chars ?

[Sanjeev Kulkarni]

Hi,

I need to break a string with special characters into segments containing only text of the string , not the special chars like ",", " # ", " ", "$ " etc.. and then I need to compare the string with database string.

Ex: if string is: " #123, EPIP Phase, White#Field "
it has to be broken into:

Segment 1: 123
Segment 2: EPIP Phase
Segment 3: WhiteField

Can u pls help me with this ?


Thanks,
Sanlearns

[Garrett Rowe]

Have you checked out the String.split() method, it does exactly what you describe.

String target = " #123, EPIP Phase, White#Field "
String[] tokens = target.split(".");
for (int i = 0; i < tokens.length; i++)
{
   tokens[i] = tokens[i].replaceAll("#". "");
}

[Alan Moore]

I think the other way 'round is easier:

String[] tokens = target.replaceAll("#", "").split(", *");