Here you can find the source of splitDoubleParentCommas(String input)
public static List<String> splitDoubleParentCommas(String input) throws Exception
//package com.java2s; /*/* w w w.ja v a2s .c o m*/ LWKT - A light WKT parser written in Java Copyright (C) 2011 Francesco Cutruzzula' (www.cutruzzula.it) This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA */ import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; public class Main { public static List<String> splitDoubleParentCommas(String input) throws Exception { List<String> results = new ArrayList<String>(); if (input.charAt(0) != '(' || input.charAt(1) != '(' || input.charAt(input.length() - 2) != ')' || input.charAt(input.length() - 1) != ')') { throw new Exception("Invalid input"); } String parts[] = input.substring(2, input.length() - 2).split("\\)\\)\\s*,\\s*\\(\\("); for (int i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) { if (parts[i].trim().length() > 0) { results.add(parts[i].trim()); } } return results; } }