I have String like this: "LODIXAL COMP 15"
How can i split it to "LODIXAL COMP" and "15" ?
String a = "LODIXAL COMP 15";
String[] result = {"LODIXAL COMP" , "15"}
-
Please read thismre– mre2012-01-12 14:56:11 +00:00Commented Jan 12, 2012 at 14:56
-
3What's the exact criterion for the location of the split? Can the first returned string ever contain digits?NPE– NPE2012-01-12 14:56:32 +00:00Commented Jan 12, 2012 at 14:56
-
answerering on @aix's question will help create good answer to you. What you want to get for: AAA BBB 2 3 CCC 4? [AAA BBB, 2, 3, CCC, 4]?lukastymo– lukastymo2012-01-12 15:25:13 +00:00Commented Jan 12, 2012 at 15:25
Add a comment
|
1 Answer
Use this positive lookahead based regex:
a.split(" (?=\\d+)");
TESTING:
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(a.split(" (?=\\d+)")));
OUTPUT:
[LODIXAL COMP, 15]
7 Comments
lukastymo
what with String a = "LODIXAL 12 3 COMP 15"; Output: [LODIXAL, 12, 3 COMP, 15]
anubhava
@smas Yes this regex will not work with your string, you will need
a.split(" (?=\\d+$)") for that. I can edit the answer but we don't know if OP can have string like that in his/her code.
michdraft
there is other situation like this: String a = "ACEDICON COMP 1 X 5 MG" and it should be splits to "ACEDICON COMP 1" and "X 5 MG". How can i do it?
anubhava
That can also be potentially done but IMHO that is very different problem than your original question. Why not ask a new question with that string and all of their variants. You will get much better answers that way.
anubhava
For eg: you can use
a.split(" (?=X\\s*\\d+)"); for your string "ACEDICON COMP 1 X 5 MG" |