Question

I am having a difficult time figuring out how to split a string like the one following:

String str = "hi=bye,hello,goodbye,pickle,noodle

This string was read from a text file and I need to split the string into each element between the commas. So I would need to split each element into their own string no matter what the text file reads. Keep in mind, each element could be any length and there could be any amount of elements which ‘hi’ is equal to. Any ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

use split!

String[] set=str.split(",");

then access each string as you need from set[…] (so lets say you want the 3rd string, you would say: set[2]).

As a test, you can print them all out:

for(int i=0; i<set.length;i++){
    System.out.println(set[i]);
}