I'm looking to parse the String below and put the characters found between each set of quotes into an array. Is there an easy way to do this assuming each set of quotes is separated by a comma (',')? Realize a comma can also be specified between the quotes, so that messes up using a comma as the separator for a string tokenizer....
String to parse: "[",",".",""]";
would populate a list with the following values:
1. ','
2. '.'
3. '' (no specific character, just blank (or whitespace))
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>>would populate a list with the following values:
What about the square brackets?
>>so that messes up using a comma as the separator for a string tokenizer....
Actually the StringTokenizer doesn't have a separator. Your example would be
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer("\"");
returning
[
,
.
an empty String
]
Objects, thanks for that tip. I haven't looked into that previously. I just tried this example:
String str = "[".",",",""]";
java.io.StringReader sr = new java.io.StringReader(str);
java.io.StreamTokenizer st = new java.io.StreamTokenizer(sr
int tokval;
while ((tokval = st.nextToken()) != java.io.StreamTokenizer.TT
{
System.out.println("Charac
}
This results in the following output:
Character '['
Character '"'
Character ','
Character '"'
Character ','
Character '"'
Character ']'
You'll see it's not identifying all the characters (i.e., the period is missing). Can you help me to understand what I'm missing here?
CEHJ,
The square brackets should be ignored. I just want the contents -- specifically the characters that are quoted. My statement should have read delimiter, not separator, which the StringTokenizer does support.
You can use PowerfulTokenizer.java
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by: objectsPosted on 2006-08-30 at 22:56:52ID: 17426515
sounds like more a job for StreamTokenizer