Java String Split by Delimiter split(String input, String delimiter)

Description

Split input by finding all occurrences of delimiter.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
delimiter	is not a regular expression, just a string.

Return

An array of strings that is always n + 1 long, where n is the number of times the string delimiter appears in input.

Declaration

public static String[] split(String input, String delimiter) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Open Source License 

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.List;

public class Main {
    /**//from  w ww  . java 2 s .c  om
     * Split input by finding all occurrences of delimiter.  Works like a
     * sane version of String.split, but with no regular expressions.
     *
     * @param delimiter is not a regular expression, just a string.
     *
     * @return An array of strings that is always n + 1 long, where n is the
     *         number of times the string delimiter appears in input.
     */
    public static String[] split(String input, String delimiter) {
        List<String> ret = new ArrayList<String>();

        int lastI = 0;
        int i = input.indexOf(delimiter);
        while (i != -1) {
            ret.add(input.substring(lastI, i));
            lastI = i + delimiter.length();
            i = input.indexOf(delimiter, lastI);
        }

        ret.add(input.substring(lastI));

        return ret.toArray(new String[ret.size()]);
    }
}

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