Java String Split by Delimiter split(String value, String[] delimiters)

Description

Splits a string into substrings using a delimiter array.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
value	string to be tokenized
delimiters	array of delimiters

Return

array of tokens

Declaration

public static String[] split(String value, String[] delimiters) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2008 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:/* ww  w. ja  va2s .  com*/
 * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Splits a string into substrings using a delimiter array.
     * 
     * @param value
     *            string to be tokenized
     * @param delimiters
     *            array of delimiters
     * @return array of tokens
     */
    public static String[] split(String value, String[] delimiters) {
        ArrayList result = new ArrayList();
        int firstIndex = 0;
        int separator = 0;
        while (firstIndex != -1) {
            firstIndex = -1;
            for (int i = 0; i < delimiters.length; i++) {
                int index = value.indexOf(delimiters[i]);
                if (index != -1 && (index < firstIndex || firstIndex == -1)) {
                    firstIndex = index;
                    separator = i;
                }
            }
            if (firstIndex != -1) {
                if (firstIndex != 0) {
                    result.add(value.substring(0, firstIndex));
                }
                int newStart = firstIndex + delimiters[separator].length();
                if (newStart <= value.length()) {
                    value = value.substring(newStart);
                }
            } else if (value.length() > 0) {
                result.add(value);
            }
        }
        return (String[]) result.toArray(new String[0]);
    }
}

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