AppletTalk.com Java discussions newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  String-splitting trouble          AppletTalk.com Forum Index -> Java Help View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Aki Sus Laukkanen Guest Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:38 pm    Post subject: String-splitting trouble Hello again :) It's been a while since I've had a problem that I couldn't solve myself -making progress?) However, here's a tricky one: I'm trying to parse a set of conditions from a String. The conditions would be like <variable number>=<value> OR <another variable number>=<another value>. As a String it looks like this: String condition = "31=0|31=9" To process the OR in the condition, I'm trying to split the String in two, like this: String[]piecesOfCondition = condition.split("|"); However, instead of [0]="31=0", [1]="31=9" the resulting table looks like [0]="", [1]="3", [2]="1", [3]="=", [4]="0", [5]="|", [6]="3", [7]="1", [8]="=", [9]="9" Anybody got any idea what I'm doing wrong here? Thanks, -- -Aki "Sus" Laukkanen Back to top Roedy Green Guest Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:49 pm    Post subject: Re: String-splitting trouble On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:38:08 +0300, "Aki "Sus" Laukkanen" <aki.laukkanenREMOVETHIS (AT) helsinki (DOT) fi> wrote or quoted : Quote: String[]piecesOfCondition = condition.split("|"); check out http://mindprod.com/jgloss/regex.html Isn't | a magic char to Regex? Thus it needs quoting. But then the char needs Java quoting. so try split( "\|" ); The other way to do this is with a parser. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/parser.html -- Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary. Back to top Aki Sus Laukkanen Guest Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:59 pm    Post subject: Re: String-splitting trouble Roedy Green wrote: Quote: String[]piecesOfCondition = condition.split("|"); check out http://mindprod.com/jgloss/regex.html Isn't | a magic char to Regex? Thus it needs quoting. But then the char needs Java quoting. so try split( "\|" ); Yup, that was the problem. After adding the backslashes it works OK. Damn those "magic" characters... :| Thanks a lot for the tip. :) -- -Aki "Sus" Laukkanen Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First         AppletTalk.com Forum Index -> Java Help All times are GMT Page 1 of 1   Jump to: Select a forum Java Newsgroups----------------Java DiscussionsWeb-based java games comp.lang.java 3D Graphics API's for Java Java: Support and criticism Java System Announcements comp.lang.java.api JavaBeans Java and CORBA Java and Databases comp.lang.java.developer Java GUI Toolkits Java Help comp.lang.java.javascript JVM, native methods and hardware comp.lang.java.misc Java Language Programming Security and Java comp.lang.java.setup Java Software Tools comp.lang.java.tech ibm.software.java.linux  Non-English Java Newsgroups----------------Java Language (German)Language Java (Français)Java (Italian)  You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2006 phpBB Group SEO toolkit © 2004-2006 webmedic.