StringTokenizer

[Kalyani Nayak]

It is very surprising but I faced one problem using StringTokenizer class.
I used 2 parameter constructor i.e. StringTokenizer("This is my : first token ::: This is my : second token",":::");
Now in above case if I tokenize the string it gives me 4 tokens as

This is my
first token
This is my
second token

Instead it should give me

This is my : first token
This is my : second token

I am confused why it is tokenizing for single ':' as my seperator token is ':::'

Any body has idea ?

[Srikkanth Mohanasundaram]

Hi,
I'm also puzzled i tried the same thing with some thing like this

  StringTokenizer sk=new StringTokenizer("This is my ab first token ac This is my adj second token","aaa");
while(sk.hasMoreElements()){
System.out.println(sk.nextElement());
}  

And my output turned out to be
This is my
b first token
c This is my
dj second token
May be the delim matches the first occurence .Anyways I would do this with String Split or regex

Regards,
Srikkanth.M

[Joanne Neal]

The second parameter is a list of characters to use as delimiters, not a String to be used as a delimiter.

The String.split method is probably better for what you want to do.