I just ran into the problem that the split method for strings wouldn’t work with character “|” as an argument. It somehow separates each character in the string. Code: Output: Answer Use escape character before | like below: Similar “escape character logic” is required, when you …
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How to split the string into string and integer in java?
I have the String a=”abcd1234″ and I want to split this into String b=”abcd” and Int c=1234. This Split code should apply for all king of input like ab123456 and acff432 and so on. How to split this kind of Strings. Is it possible? Answer You could try to split on a regular expression …
Java Regular Expression split keeping contractions
When using split(), what regular expression would allow me to keep all word characters but would also preserve contractions like don’t won’t. Anything with word characters on both sides of the apostrophe but removes any leading or trailing apostraphes such as ’tis or dogs’. I have: but…
Java – Split String into sentences with character limitation
I want to split a text into sentences (split by . or BreakIterator). But: Each sentence mustn’t have more than 100 characters. Example: To: (3 elements, without breaking a word, but a sentence) How can I do this properly? Answer Solved (thank you Macarse for the inspiration):
Split using a bracket
How can I split a string using [ as the delimiter? if I do I get an error Exception in thread “main” java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Unclosed character class near index 1 [ Any help? Answer The [ is a reserved char in regex, you need to escape it,
How to convert comma-separated String to List?
Is there any built-in method in Java which allows us to convert comma separated String to some container (e.g array, List or Vector)? Or do I need to write custom code for that? Answer Convert comma separated String to List The above code splits the string on a delimiter defined as: zero or more whitespace, a…
Splitting strings through regular expressions by punctuation and whitespace etc in java
I have this text file that I read into a Java application and then count the words in it line by line. Right now I am splitting the lines into words by a But I know I am missing out on some words from the text file. For example, the word “can’t” should be divided into two words “can…
How to split a string with any whitespace chars as delimiters
What regex pattern would need I to pass to java.lang.String.split() to split a String into an Array of substrings using all whitespace characters (‘ ‘, ‘t’, ‘n’, etc.) as delimiters? Answer Something in the lines of This groups all white spaces as a delimiter. So if I have …