loop through delimited values in string

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JR - 22 Jun 2007 04:39 GMT

I have a string with a bunch of values separated by a tilde and
greater than sign. So like.

String myList =
"123~>abv~>asdflkjasfdlkjslkdfjj~>asdflkj~>sldfkjsdlfkjadfs";

For simplicity sake to get me started, can someone share some code on
how I would loop through the myList values and output it to the screen
in the following format:

123
abv
asdflkjasfdlkjslkdfjj
asdflkj
sldfkjsdlfkjadfs

If there is a way to do this other than a loop I would prefer it be
looping through as I need to do some other stuff to each value as it
parses threw it.

Thanks.

JR

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bencoe@gmail.com - 22 Jun 2007 05:27 GMT

> I have a string with a bunch of values separated by a tilde and
> greater than sign. So like.
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> JR

String values[]=myList.split("->");
for(int i=0;i<values.length;i++)
System.out.println(values[i]);

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hiwa - 22 Jun 2007 05:49 GMT

> I have a string with a bunch of values separated by a tilde and
> greater than sign. So like.
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>
> JR

Use String.split() method.

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JR - 23 Jun 2007 03:02 GMT

Thank you everyone for you input. Very helpful and much appreciated.
One note though, I am not so lucky as was mentioned. I do have a pipe
character in one of my situations it's "|~" without the quotes. Tried
using new char[] { '|' } from the Quoter site but could figure out how
to formulate: split("|~")

Thanks.

JR

> > I have a string with a bunch of values separated by a tilde and
> > greater than sign. So like.
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JR - 23 Jun 2007 03:04 GMT

Got it, need to prefix the pipe with \\

Thanks again.

> Thank you everyone for you input. Very helpful and much appreciated.
> One note though, I am not so lucky as was mentioned. I do have a pipe
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Lew - 23 Jun 2007 13:58 GMT

> Got it, need to prefix the pipe with \\

And to post replies inline with quoted text instead of top posting.

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Lew

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Roedy Green - 22 Jun 2007 06:20 GMT

>"123~>abv~>asdflkjasfdlkjslkdfjj~>asdflkj~>sldfkjsdlfkjadfs";

see Regex split http://mindprod.com/jgloss/regex.html

The string version of split will reparse and recompile the regex on
every use.

the following chars are reserved in Regex and need to be quoted:
$ ( ) * + - . < = ? [ \ ] ^ { | }
See http://mindprod.com/applets/quoter.html

You luck out in this case. Neither of ~> needs quoting.

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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com

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