Hi Folks,
In my code, I am attempting to split a String.
The String I have to split is huge and so this method returns very very big array causing heap space problems.
I have considered first splitting the String into smaller managable Strings and then splitting them but it looks a little messy to me.
Could you please suggest a more efficient and cleaner way to do this.
You could use StringTokenizer, but that can't handle regular expressions to split on, only single characters. The alternative is to use Pattern and Matcher; in fact these are also used by String.split (which in fact uses Pattern.split). Roughly speaking:
Thanks a lot Rob. The parser and Matcher worked like a breeze perfectly.
The String is a set of input messages that my code gets to work on. I am given this large string to parse and convert in to another format. It is a regular String that has to be parsed/split with \n \r as the delimiter.
David Newton
Post Friday, September 04, 2009 7:20:51 PM Subject: Alternative to String.split()
Is the string regular? In other words, can it be parsed? Is it line-oriented (or other delimiter)? Why is it so big?
Apologies for the delay. Was on holiday during the weekend