SubString Question

[Rekha Pande]

Hello all,

Seprating of a string having a dot operator
Eg: String all = "NAME.PHONE.CODE.COUNTRY",
How would i go about it...

Means i want to get
String name = all.subString(???); will be returning the NAME part
String phone = all.subString(???); will be returning the PHONE part
String code = all.subString(???); will be returning the CODE part
String country = all.subString(???); will be returning the COUNTRY part


Can anyone help me on this???

Thanxs in advance.

[Steve McCann]

Hi Rekha

Use the String indexOf() method to find the positions of the "." inside your string. Then you can use the substring() method to get the parts you need, e.g.

 String name = all.substring(0, all.indexOf("."); 

Check out the Java tutorial for more info on substrings etchere

And the full tutorial:Java Tutorial

Steve

[Anonymous]

Hi,
You better use the String Tokenizer for that.
It would look like this: (token would be "." in your case)

StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(yourString, token)
String name = name.nextToken();
String phone = name.nextToken();
String code = name.nextToken(); 
String country = name.nextToken(); 

Additionally you should check if there is really a next token.
Best check the Javadocs for infos about the StringTokenizer. As far
as i remember there are also examples how to use it.

Olli

Originally posted by Rekha Pande:
Hello all,

Seprating of a string having a dot operator
Eg: String all = "NAME.PHONE.CODE.COUNTRY",
How would i go about it...

Means i want to get
String name = all.subString(???); will be returning the NAME part
String phone = all.subString(???); will be returning the PHONE part
String code = all.subString(???); will be returning the CODE part
String country = all.subString(???); will be returning the COUNTRY part


Can anyone help me on this???

Thanxs in advance.

[madhu gadde]

Hi,
upto what i know u can use the StringTokenizer.just check the API for StringTokenizer,there are some methods which will help you in getting substrings.

[Rekha Pande]

Thank you all for your prompt reply.
I tried the String Tokenizer method and it works just perfectly...

Thank u all once again.

[Steve McCann]

StringTokenizer method is a better way than mine, I think.

Steve

[Ben Souther]

If you're using j2sdk1.4 or higher you can take advantage of the new regexp methods in the String object and just use String.split(regexp). Which will break the string into an array on whatever expression you use as your argument.

[Bear Bibeault]

Moved to Java in General (i).