Java String Split by Delimiter splitWithEscapeChar(String s, char delimiter, char escape)

Description

Split a string 's' using 'delimiter' but don't split on any delimiters escaped with 'escape' character.

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static List<String> splitWithEscapeChar(String s, char delimiter, char escape) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from   ww w .j  a  va2  s  . co m*/
 * All GTAS code is Copyright 2016, Unisys Corporation.
 * 
 * Please see LICENSE.txt for details.
 */

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Split a string 's' using 'delimiter' but don't split on any delimiters
     * escaped with 'escape' character.  For example, if we call this method
     * with s = "mc?'foo'bar", delimiter = '\'', escape = '?'  the method
     * should return ["mc'foo", "bar"].  Note as a side-effect, the escape
     * characters are removed from the final output.
     */
    public static List<String> splitWithEscapeChar(String s, char delimiter, char escape) {
        String escapedDelimiter = String.format("\\%c\\%c", escape, delimiter);
        final String sentinel = "~XYZ~";
        String tmp = s.replaceAll(escapedDelimiter, sentinel);

        String regex = String.format("\\%c", delimiter);
        String[] tmpSplit = tmp.split(regex);
        List<String> rv = new ArrayList<>(tmpSplit.length);
        for (String myString : tmpSplit) {
            rv.add(myString.replaceAll(sentinel, "\\" + delimiter).trim());
        }

        return rv;
    }
}

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6. stringSplitter(String inStr, String delimiterStr)
7. tokenizerSplit(String string, String delimiter)
8. toTextArray(String text, String delimiter)