Question

As per my project I need to devide a string into two parts.

below is the example:

String searchFilter = "(first=sam*)(last=joy*)";

Where searchFilter is a string.
I want to split above string to two parts

first=sam* and last=joy*
so that i can again split this variables into first,sam*,last and joy* as per my requirement.

I dont have much hands on experience in java. Can anyone help me to achieve this one. It will be very helpfull.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The most flexible way is probably to do it with regular expressions:

import java.util.regex.*;

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        // Create a regular expression pattern
        Pattern spec = Pattern.compile("\\((.*?)=(.*?)\\)");

        // Get a matcher for the searchFilter
        String searchFilter = "(first=sam*)(last=joy*)";
        Matcher m = spec.matcher(searchFilter);

        // While a "abc=xyz" pattern can be found...
        while (m.find())
            // ...print "abc" equals "xyz"
            System.out.println("\""+m.group(1)+"\" equals \""+m.group(2)+"\"");
    }
}

Output:

"first" equals "sam*"
"last" equals "joy*"