Converting String to String []

[Jim Thompson]

How can I convert a String to a String array? I am grabbing a String from a JTextField; this value has to go into a method that needs it in String[] format. Thanks

[Jim Thompson]

What about this:
SearchString = searchField.getText(); //from JTextField
String[] strings = SearchString.split("\\s"); //split on space

[Jim Yingst]

Yes, split() is probably exactly what you want. If indeed splitting on whitespace is what you need. Note that you might want to split on "\\s+" instead. Otherwise if you have any consecutive whitespaces, like say a space followed by a newline (a common occurance), your array would have an extra empty string "" representing what's between the space and the newline.

[Wayne L Johnson]

If you simply want to pass in the entire string as a single-element array:

String[] strArray = new String[1];
strArray[0] = searchField.getText();

You could do the above in one statement, but this shows how you allocate the array and set the value.