Help required regarding splitting string in words in java

[adil ibnashraf]

Hi ,
I need to split a given string into words respectively, The string can be like "Hello Code Ranch ...!! Its So good to be here"
So i want it to be split as

Hello
Code
Ranch
Its
good
to
be
here

I am using String.split("[^a-zA-Z]") for the same
but getting output as

Hello

Code


Ranch


its

good

to

be

here

Can any one help out ?

[Wouter Oet]

Hi and welcome to the JavaRanch.

You're splitting the string on everything that is not a letter. And because you have ...!! in the sentence you got a lot of empty strings. What you want is that it takes the whole group (...!!) and split on that. You can achieve that by adding a quantifier.

[adil ibnashraf]

Can you please give me a regular expression having quantifier and serving my purpose

[Wouter Oet]

First read the article and try some of the quantifiers. If I just tell you the solution you'll learn nothing.