Java String Explode explode(String source, String deliminator)

Description

Performs an 'explode' operation on the given source string.

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static List explode(String source, String deliminator) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**//from  www. j  a v a 2s  .c om
 * com.mckoi.util.StringUtil  17 Dec 1999
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 * Mckoi SQL Database ( http://www.mckoi.com/database )
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import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Performs an 'explode' operation on the given source string.  This
     * algorithm finds all instances of the deliminator string, and returns an
     * array of sub-strings of between the deliminator.  For example,
     * <code>
     *   explode("10:30:40:55", ":") = ({"10", "30", "40", "55"})
     * </code>
     */
    public static List explode(String source, String deliminator) {
        ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
        int i = find(source, deliminator);
        while (i != -1) {
            list.add(source.substring(0, i));
            source = source.substring(i + deliminator.length());
            i = find(source, deliminator);
        }
        list.add(source);
        return list;
    }

    /**
     * Finds the index of the given string in the source string.
     * <p>
     * @return -1 if the 'find' string could not be found.
     */
    public static int find(String source, String find) {
        return source.indexOf(find);

        //    int find_index = 0;
        //    int len = source.length();
        //    int find_len = find.length();
        //    int i = 0;
        //    for (; i < len; ++i) {
        //      if (find_index == find_len) {
        //        return i - find_len;
        //      }
        //      if (find.indexOf(source.charAt(i), find_index) == find_index) {
        //        ++find_index;
        //      }
        //      else {
        //        find_index = 0;
        //      }
        //    }
        //    if (find_index == find_len) {
        //      return i - find_len;
        //    }
        //    else {
        //      return -1;
        //    }
    }
}

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