Re: Splitting a string with spaces (not i specific)

Hi David,

Dan's response is probably the way to go, but if you're not a regex expert ( regexpert? ) and can't justify the time learning, you can put the String to an array and build the separate strings as you go. Not pretty, but fairly straightforward.


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----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Kimmel" <dkimmel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400" <java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 4:06 PM
Subject: RE: Splitting a string with spaces (not i specific)

I'd use a RegEx and a Matcher.

while matcher.matches() {
...
}

-----Original Message-----
From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 2:53 PM
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: Splitting a string with spaces (not i specific)

This question isn't very i specific, but it does have to do with an i
project I'm working on.

I need to split a string (in Java) into individual words ... but I need
to preserve spaces.

An example of the text I need to split is something like this:
ABC . . . . DEF . . . . GHI

I need to see "ABC", " . . . .", "DEF", ". . . .", and "GHI".

Obviously splitting on the space character `\s` isn't going to work, as
all the spaces get swallowed up as one space.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

david