Question

Basically I have these connection strings that I need to split up, heres an example of one:

name=type,info1;101;localhost;-1;false;false

I want to split it up into three variables: name, type and info.

the name is the bit before the ‘=’ (“name”)
the type is the bit after the ‘=’ and before the ‘,’ (“type”)
the info is everything after the ‘,’ (“info1;101;localhost;-1;false;false”)

I have tried using the “.split” function but to no avail. Could anybody help me do it using a regular expression with substrings? Thanks.

Not had much practise with the split function, so it went like this:

String name [] = connString.split(",");
String type [] = connString.split(";");
String info [] = connString.split("");

MORE:

could you use the ‘.split’ method to split up the parameters in this line from an XML doc?

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Answer 1

Using only one .split():

String s = "name=type,info1;101;localhost;-1;false;false";
String[] words = s.split("=|,");
String name = words[0];
String type = words[1];
String info = words[2];
System.out.println("Name: " + name + "\nType: " + type + "\nInfo: " + info);

Output:

Name: name
Type: type
Info: info1;101;localhost;-1;false;false