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Masamunexiii - 11 Aug 2005 06:10 GMT

How do you break apart strings? For example the user type in John, Doe
E. and you want put John in one variable, Doe in another and E in the
third? I looked through any java books i found and it did not mention
this?

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Tonton - 11 Aug 2005 06:26 GMT

"Masamunexiii"

> How do you break apart strings? For example the user type in John, Doe
> E. and you want put John in one variable, Doe in another and E in the
> third? I looked through any java books i found and it did not mention
> this?

You might find a neat solution using String[] String.split (String regex)

You might need to learn things about "regular-expressions"

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Hal Rosser - 11 Aug 2005 22:01 GMT

Look at the split method of the String class - and also take a look at the
StringTokenizer class.

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Rivky - 12 Aug 2005 15:11 GMT

You should also look at the String substing method. You can do
string.indexOf(" "); to find the index of the delimiter (maybe a space
in this case?) and the use the substring methid to grab data you want.

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Hal Rosser - 13 Aug 2005 05:58 GMT

yeah - funny thing about java. more than one way to do it.
(Like Perl - or M$ dot-net- or Python - or PHP or <insert language here>)

> You should also look at the String substing method. You can do
> string.indexOf(" "); to find the index of the delimiter (maybe a space
> in this case?) and the use the substring methid to grab data you want.

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