Java Comma Separated List toListDelimitedByComma(String s)

Description

Turn a long string into a list split by our delimeter

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
String	comma separated list

Return

List a list of strings

Declaration

public static List toListDelimitedByComma(String s) 

Method Source Code

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

import java.util.Collections;

import java.util.List;

public class Main {
    /** 
     * Define the delimiter to split on 
    */
    private static String DELIMETER = "[,]";

    /**
     *  Turn a long string into a list split by our delimeter
     *
     *  @param String comma separated list
     *  @return List a list of strings
     */
    public static List toListDelimitedByComma(String s) {
        if (s == null)
            return Collections.EMPTY_LIST;

        List results = new ArrayList();

        String[] terms = s.split(DELIMETER);

        for (int i = 0; i < terms.length; i++) {
            String term = terms[i].trim();
            if (term.length() > 0) {
                results.add(term);
            }
        }
        return results;
    }
}

Related

1. toCommaList(Collection items)
2. toCommaSeparated(List list)
3. toCommaSeparated(List list)
4. toCommaSeparatedString(List list)
5. toList(final String commaSeparatedString)
6. toListOfNonEmptyStringsDelimitedByCommaOrSemicolon(String s)
7. toListOfStringsDelimitedByCommaOrSemicolon(String s)