Correct split() syntax

[Brandt Charles]

I know very little about regular expressions and related methods. However, I want to use the split method in lieu of StringTokenizer. I want to split a string displayed in a text field by white space. Is this the correct format?

String [] input;
String str;
input[] = str.split(" "); // Is this right to accomplish this?

[Henry Wong]

First, when you say "white space", do you mean whitespace? meaning spaces, tabs, etc.? or just a space?

Second, when two spaces are together, is it one delimiter or two?

Assuming that you mean "whitespace", and groups of whitespaces is only one delimiter, then the correct Regular Expression is "\\s+".

Henry

[Chad Clites]

Just for sake of argument (because regular expressions and pattern matching amuse me to no end), is:

input[] = str.split("\\s");

significantly different than:

input[] = str.split("[ ]");
??
[ July 06, 2006: Message edited by: Chad Clites ]

[Henry Wong]

The first case will split around a single space, tab, carriage return, form feed, or linefeed. The second case will only split around a single space.

Henry

[Brandt Charles]

I meant a single space. You all answered my question, thank you very much.