All,
 Been a looong time since i've done any string parsing in java. I seem to
remember there being a braindead simple way of turning a string like this:

100,1,1;2598,2,3;25467,1,3

into an array of arrays delimited first on the semicolon and then on the
comma.

Currently, i'm just stringTokenizing it on the semicolon and then doing
next() calls.

So...
StrTokenizer = new StrTokenizer("100,1,1;2598,2,3;25467,1,3",";");
List list = tokenizer.asList()

iterate over list
  StrTokenizer newTokenizer = new StrTokenizer(list.next(),",");
  List newlist = newTokenizer.asList();
   thisVal  = newlist.next();
   someOtherVal = newlist.next();

and so forth.

it's just damn ugly, so i'm wondering what the best/cleanest way to do this
in java is.

thanks all.

Marc