Splitting a string to smaller strings.

[James Palmer]

Hello, i have a big string with lots of words in it and i want to find a way to split this string into separate words.This probably means that whenever the program finds a space it means that this is a new word and should make a new string for that one until it meets a space again.Particularly i want to use a tokenizer to do this.For example the string "I have a cat" should be split in 4 strings."I" "have" "a" "cat".Can anyone help?

[john smith]

From the API javadoc:

     StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer("this is a test");
     while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
         println(st.nextToken());
     }

[Vicken Karaoghlanian]

You can learn more about the StringTokenizer here

[David Peterson]

Alternatively use the split() method of String class.

String[] words = s.split(" ");
for (int i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
    System.out.println(words[i]);
}