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substring a string and add it as an element of a String array

Posted by Clint on August 01, 2001 at 8:55 PM

how would one go about parsing a string and breaking it up based on a delimiter, and add them as elements of an array... say, we have
String parent = "something1; something2; something3";

I can go about using a while loop to get each one
int begin = 0;
int index1 = parent.indexOf(";");
while (parent.charAt(index1) != -1){
String element1 = parent.substring(begin,index1);

and something along those lines. however would i get all the elements from the parent string? and how would I add all these substring elements to a new String array? Or is there a better way of doing this?

any help/insight would be appreciated. thanx much
Clint

• use StringTokenizer Bobby S. August 01, 2001 at 11:43 PM (1)
  • Re Clint August 02, 2001 at 12:49 PM (0)