Java String Split by Delimiter split2(String string, String delimiter)

Description

Splits the string by the given delimiter but does not accept delimiters or blank elements and trims all elements.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
string	a parameter
delimiter	a parameter

Return

the processed array

Declaration

public static String[] split2(String string, String delimiter) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
 *  Copyright (c) 2010 Weltevree Beheer BV, Remain Software & Industrial-TSI
 *                                                                      
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials     
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at             
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html                            
 *                                                                      
 * Contributors:                                                        
 *    Wim Jongman - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Main {
    /**/*from w  w  w  .  j  av  a2s .  com*/
     * Splits the string by the given delimiter but does not accept delimiters
     * or blank elements and trims all elements. If the delimiter contains
     * blanks then these are trimmed before comparing so the results might be
     * not as you expect.
     * 
     * @param string
     * @param delimiter
     * @return the processed array
     */
    public static String[] split2(String string, String delimiter) {

        String[] result = split(string, delimiter);
        ArrayList result2 = new ArrayList();
        for (int i = 0; i < result.length; i++) {
            String mean = result[i].trim();
            if (mean.length() > 0 && !mean.equals(delimiter.trim())) {
                result2.add(mean);
            }
        }
        return (String[]) result2.toArray(new String[result2.size()]);
    }

    /**
     * Splits the given string by delimiter.
     * 
     * @param string
     * @param delimiter
     * @return the unprocessed array
     */
    public static String[] split(String string, String delimiter) {

        String[] result;

        if (string == null) {
            result = new String[0];
            return result;
        }

        ArrayList list = new ArrayList();

        do {
            int location = string.indexOf(delimiter);

            if (location < 0)
                break;
            list.add(string.substring(0, location).trim());
            string = string.substring(location + 1);
        } while (true);

        string = string.trim();

        if (string.length() > 0)
            list.add(string);

        result = (String[]) list.toArray(new String[list.size()]);

        // StringTokenizer tizer = new StringTokenizer(string, delimiter);
        // String[] result = new String[tizer.countTokens()];
        // for (int i = 0; tizer.hasMoreElements(); i++) {
        // result[i] = tizer.nextToken();
        // }
        return result;

    }
}

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