Delimiters are comma, space, or period: '[, .]' : String Tokenize « Data Type « Java Tutorial

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public class MainClass {

  public static void main(String[] arg) {
    String text = "To be or not to be, that is the question.";
    String delimiters = "[, .]"; // Delimiters are comma, space, and period
    int[] limits = { 0, -1 }; // Limit values to try

    for (int limit : limits) {
      System.out.println("\nAnalysis with limit = " + limit);
      String[] tokens = text.split(delimiters, limit);
      System.out.println("Number of tokens: " + tokens.length);
      for (String token : tokens) {
        System.out.println(token);
      }
    }

  }

}

Analysis with limit = 0
Number of tokens: 11
To
be
or
not
to
be

that
is
the
question

Analysis with limit = -1
Number of tokens: 12
To
be
or
not
to
be

that
is
the
question