SplitDemo

/**
 * Use split() to extract substrings from a string.
 */
package StrRegex;

/**
 * @author Administrator
 *
 */
public class SplitDemo {
	static void showSplit(String[] strs) {
		for (String str : strs) {
			System.out.print(str + "|");
		}
		
		System.out.println();
	}

	/**
	 * @param args
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		String result[];
		
		// Split at spaces.
		String testStr = "This is   a test.";
		System.out.println("Original string : " + testStr);
		result = testStr.split("\\s+");
		System.out.print("Split at spaces: ");
		showSplit(result);
		
		// Split on world boundaries.
		testStr = "One, Two, and Three.";
		System.out.println("Original string : " + testStr);
		result = testStr.split("\\W+");
		System.out.print("Split at word boundaries : ");
		showSplit(result);
		
		// Split same string on commas and zero or more spaces.
		System.out.println("Original string : " + testStr);
		result = testStr.split(",\\s*");
		System.out.print("Split at commas : ");
		showSplit(result);
		
		// Split on word boundaries, but allow embedded
		// periods and @.
		testStr = "Jerry Jerry@HerbSchildt.com";
		System.out.println("Original string : " + testStr);
		result = testStr.split("[\\W && [^.@]]+");
		System.out.print("Allow . and @ to be part of a word : ");
		showSplit(result);
		
		// Split on various punctuation and zero or more trailing spaces.
		testStr = "This, is. a!:; test?";
		System.out.println("Original string : " + testStr);
		result = testStr.split("[.,!?:;]+\\s*");
		System.out.print("Split on various punctuaion : ");
		showSplit(result);
	}
}