Java String Split split(String str)

Description

Split a string using the default separator

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
str	a string that may have escaped separator

Return

an array of strings

Declaration

public static String[] split(String str) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.List;

public class Main {
    final public static char COMMA = ',';
    final public static char ESCAPE_CHAR = '\\';

    /**
     * Split a string using the default separator
     *
     * @param str
     *     a string that may have escaped separator
     * @return an array of strings
     */
    public static String[] split(String str) {
        return split(str, ESCAPE_CHAR, COMMA);
    }

    /**
     * Split a string using the given separator
     *
     * @param str
     *     a string that may have escaped separator
     * @param escapeChar
     *     a char that be used to escape the separator
     * @param separator
     *     a separator char
     * @return an array of strings
     */
    public static String[] split(String str, char escapeChar, char separator) {
        if (str == null) {
            return null;
        }
        ArrayList<String> strList = new ArrayList<String>();
        StringBuilder split = new StringBuilder();
        int index = 0;
        while ((index = findNext(str, separator, escapeChar, index, split)) >= 0) {
            ++index; // move over the separator for next search
            strList.add(split.toString());
            split.setLength(0); // reset the buffer
        }
        strList.add(split.toString());
        // remove trailing empty split(s)
        int last = strList.size(); // last split
        while (--last >= 0 && "".equals(strList.get(last))) {
            strList.remove(last);
        }
        return strList.toArray(new String[strList.size()]);
    }

    public static String[] split(String str, char separatorChar) {
        return splitWorker(str, separatorChar, false);
    }

    /**
     * Finds the first occurrence of the separator character ignoring the escaped
     * separators starting from the index. Note the substring between the index
     * and the position of the separator is passed.
     *
     * @param str
     *     the source string
     * @param separator
     *     the character to find
     * @param escapeChar
     *     character used to escape
     * @param start
     *     from where to search
     * @param split
     *     used to pass back the extracted string
     */
    public static int findNext(String str, char separator, char escapeChar, int start, StringBuilder split) {
        int numPreEscapes = 0;
        for (int i = start; i < str.length(); i++) {
            char curChar = str.charAt(i);
            if (numPreEscapes == 0 && curChar == separator) { // separator
                return i;
            } else {
                split.append(curChar);
                numPreEscapes = (curChar == escapeChar) ? (++numPreEscapes) % 2 : 0;
            }
        }
        return -1;
    }

    public static boolean equals(String str1, String str2) {
        return str1 == null ? str2 == null : str1.equals(str2);
    }

    private static String[] splitWorker(String str, char separatorChar, boolean preserveAllTokens) {
        // Performance tuned for 2.0 (JDK1.4)

        if (str == null) {
            return null;
        }
        int len = str.length();
        if (len == 0) {
            return new String[0];
        }
        List list = new ArrayList();
        int i = 0, start = 0;
        boolean match = false;
        boolean lastMatch = false;
        while (i < len) {
            if (str.charAt(i) == separatorChar) {
                if (match || preserveAllTokens) {
                    list.add(str.substring(start, i));
                    match = false;
                    lastMatch = true;
                }
                start = ++i;
                continue;
            }
            lastMatch = false;
            match = true;
            i++;
        }
        if (match || (preserveAllTokens && lastMatch)) {
            list.add(str.substring(start, i));
        }
        return (String[]) list.toArray(new String[list.size()]);
    }
}

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