Help required regarding string split function

[Manojit Babu]

Can any body make me understand what exactly \\s* means in

split("\\s*,\\s*");

Thanks in advance

[Paul Sturrock]

\s is white space in regural expressions. So it looks like the intention is to split the string based on occurences of a comma with zero or more white space characters round it.

[Jan van Mansum]

See Documentation for split
and
for regular expressions

In short the regex "\s*" means: "zero or more whitespace characters". In Java string literals you have to escape the backslash, so it becomes "\\s*"

split will split your string into parts, using "zero or more whitespaces" as separators. E.g, after

String[] parts = "This is a test".split("\\s*");

parts[0] contains "This", parts[1] contains "is", parts[2] contains "a", parts[3] contains "test".
[ October 25, 2007: Message edited by: Jan van Mansum ]

[Jan van Mansum]

OK, I just tried my example out (should have done that beforehand )
Anyway, the expression \s* doesn't work, that should be \s+ of course ("one or more spaces").

[bart zagers]

What about this topic???