Is possible to substring this String = "D:/test/for test/change.txt:D:/test/for test/further.txt:D:/test/for test/yandex.txt" to:
D:/test/for test/change.txt D:/test/for test/further.txt D:/test/for test/yandex.txt
Because are two column, I can not split() use ":".
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Answer
A simple regular expression below splits on “:” that are followed by a “driveletter:”
String s = "D:/test/for test/change.txt:D:/test/for test/further.txt:D:/test/for test/yandex.txt";
s.split(":(?=\w:)");
==> String[3] { "D:/test/for test/change.txt"
, "D:/test/for test/further.txt"
, "D:/test/for test/yandex.txt" }
Note that this won’t help if additional paths don’t begin with driveletter: