How to read follwing String

[Prajakta Kale]

hi,

I have following string . I want to separate this String in key value pair like.

srno as key and 20090001 as value. Don't want to use StringTokenzier.

please help....



String str = " srno= 20090001 , name = 'Na,mit', add = ' road' "

Thank you !!!

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

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Welcome to JavaRanch Prajakta Kale
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if you dont want to use predefined spliting mechnism, you need to implement two methods 1. String[] getKeys 2. String[] getValues.

by the way: how do you get only keys as well as only values ?

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome to the Ranch

You are right not to use StringTokenizer; use the split() method of String, and try a small limit, maybe 2.

[Bob Ruth]

consider a nested pair of splits....

an outer doing a split(",") to separate each of the key value pairs...
for each token
an inner doing a split("=") to separate each key and value
then do a put (key, value)

now watch out..... some of your strings(values) have single quotes. They are already inside a string so the single quotes will be taken in as part of the value string.