Parse String

  String ssline =   "AAA: 111 BBB: 222 CCC: 333 DDD: 444 EEE: 555";

        String [] sslines = ssline.trim().split("[A-Za-z\\s:]+");

        for(int j=1; j<sslines.length; j++){


            System.out.println( sslines[j]);
        }

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output:

111
222
333
444
555

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Looks good and you get the points but I screwed up and left one thing out.

What if one of the values I'm trying to pull has a comma, is there a way I can ignore it.

For example:

String ssline =   "AAA: 111 BBB: Smith, Bill CCC: 333 DDD: 444 EEE: 555"

I need to keep "Smith, Bill" together.

thanks!

commaa is not a problem,

see below:

      String ssline =   "AAA: 111 BBB: 222 CCC: 333 D,DD: 444 EEE: 555";

        String [] sslines = ssline.split("[\\D,]+");

        for(int j=1; j<sslines.length; j++){


            System.out.println( "ss" + sslines[j]);
        }

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ss111
ss222
ss333
ss444
ss555



WAht is a problem is that I acnnot get away from the first empty line - i just ignored it startig form index 1
but if it starts from the number you need  not to ignore it

Thsi would work for all lines
if they start from number or not

 String ssline =   "AAA: 111 BBB: 222 CCC: 333 D,DD: 444 EEE: 555";

        String [] sslines = ssline.split("[\\D,]+");

        for(int j=0; j<sslines.length; j++){
            if(j==0 && sslines[j].trim().length() == 0)continue;


            System.out.println(sslines[j]);
        }

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Output:

111
222
333
444
555

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but still I'm unhappy

Thanks. It's still not doing exactly what I need. My fault, I should have not just done all numbers. Could you get it to parse my example string. There may be cases where there are alphabetic chars after the colon.

String ssline =   "AAA: 111 BBB: Smith, Bill CCC: 333 DDD: 444 EEE: 555"

I'd like to get back the following:
111
Smith, Bill
333
444
555

thanks!

tehn formulate - what do you want to remove?
what is the dofference between say "BBB"  and "Smith" ?
We can split by colon, but how do we know what to remove -
llike say all words ending with colon?

Yeah, I need to pull the value after each colon.

Thanks!

This would be still better, as it dowes not ignore first empty string,
but rather splits withourt it

    String ssline =   "AAA: 111 BBB: Smith, Bill CCC: 333 DDD: 444 EEE: 555";

        String [] sslines = ssline.replaceFirst("^[A-Z]+:","").split("[A-Z]+:");

        for(int j=0; j<sslines.length; j++){
           


            System.out.println(sslines[j].trim());
        }

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Output:

111
Smith, Bill
333
444
555

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Thanks. One more question what if the letters before the colon were a mix of Upper and Lower case?

for example:


"Aaa: 111 Bbb: Smith, Bill Ccc: 333 Ddd: 444 Eee: 555";

thanks!

    String ssline =   "AAA: 111 Bbb: Smith, Bill CCC: 333 DDD: 444 EEE: 555";

        String [] sslines = ssline.replaceFirst("^[A-Za-z]+:","").split("[A-Za-z]+:");

        for(int j=0; j<sslines.length; j++){
           


            System.out.println(sslines[j].trim());
        }

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111
Smith, Bill
333
444
555

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Awesome! Works great!