Use String split with multiple delimiters

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I need to split a string base on delimiter - and    Below are my desired output    AA BB-CC-DD zip -    AA BB CC DD zip    but my following code does not work   private void getId String pdfName       String  tokens   pdfName split  -

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I d use Apache Commons   import org apache commons lang3 StringUtils   private void getId String pdfName       String   tokens   StringUtils split pdfName   -         It ll split on any of the specified separators  as opposed to StringUtils splitByWholeSeparator str  separator  which uses the complete string as a separator

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You can use the regex   W  This matches any non-word character The required line would be   String   tokens pdfName split    W

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Using Guava you could do this   Iterable lt String gt  tokens   Splitter on CharMatcher anyOf  -     split pdfName

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String   token s split    -

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s trim   split     W        should work

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Try this code   var string    AA BB-CC-DD zip   array   string split

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I think you need to include the regex OR operator   String  tokens   pdfName split  -          What you have will match   DASH followed by DOT together  -  not  DASH or DOT any of them   - or

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It s better to use something like this   s split     s  -                          Have added a few other characters as sample  This is the safest way to use  because the way   and   is treated

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You may also specified regular expression as argument in split   method   see below example      private void getId String pdfName   String  tokens   pdfName split  -

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The string you give split is the string form of a regular expression  so   private void getId String pdfName       String  tokens   pdfName split     -          That means to split on any character in the     we have to escape - with a backslash because it s special inside     and of course we have to escape the backslash because this is a string    Conversely    is normally special but isn t special inside

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pdfName split  quot   -   quot       -  - gt  any one of the   or - can be used as delimiter    sign signifies that if the aforementioned delimiters occur consecutively we should treat it as one

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If you know the sting will always be in the same format  first split the string based on   and store the string at the first index in a variable  Then split the string in the second index based on - and store indexes 0  1 and 2  Finally  split index 2 of the previous array based on   and you should have obtained all of the relevant fields     Refer to the following snippet   String   tmp   pdfName split       String val1   tmp 0   tmp   tmp 1  split  -    String val2   tmp 0

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Try this regex   -      The   after treats consecutive delimiter chars as one  Remove plus if you do not want this

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For two char sequence as delimeters  AND  and  OR  this should be worked  Don t forget to trim while using    String text   ISTANBUL AND NEW YORK AND PARIS OR TOKYO AND MOSCOW    String   cities   text split  AND OR       Result   cities     ISTANBUL      NEW YORK      PARIS      TOKYO      MOSCOW

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