I have a quite simple question here is that i have a string 0-1000
say str = "0-1000"
I successfully extract 0 and 1000 by using str.split("-")
Now, I am assigned to check the number because i am noticed that those two numbers can be a negative.
If I continue str.split("-"), then I will skip the negative sign as well.
Could anyone suggest methods for me?
Since String.split() uses regular expressions to split, you could do something like this:
String[] nos = "-1000--1".split("(?<=\\d)-";
This means you split at minus characters that follow a digit, i.e. must be an operator.
Note that the positive look-behind (?<=\d) needs to be used since you only want to match the minus character. String.split() removes all matching separators and thus something like \d- would remove digits as well.
To parse the numbers you'd then iterate over the array elements and call Integer.valueOf(element) or Integer.parseInt(element).
Note that this assumes the input string to be valid. Depending on what you want to achieve, you might first have to check the input for a match, e.g. by using -?\d--?\d to check whether the string is in format x-y where x and y can be positive or negative integers.
Integer use Integer.parseInt()
1000 is not a digit but a string of 4 digit characters. As TheLostMind already commented you need to parse the numbers to integers in any case.You can use regex like this :Works for all cases
public static void main(String[] args) {
String s = "-500--578";
String[] arr = s.split("(?<=\\d)-"); // split on "-" only if it is preceeded by a digit
for (String str : arr)
System.out.println(str);
}
O/P:
-500
-578
(?<=\d)