Question

I am trying parse out 3 pieces of information from a String.

Here is my code:

text = "H:7 E:7 P:10";
String pattern = "[HEP]:";

Pattern p = Pattern.compile(pattern);

String[] attr = p.split(text);

I would like it to return:

String[0] = "7"
String[1] = "7"
String[2] = "10"

But all I am getting is:

String[0] = ""
String[1] = "7 "
String[2] = "7 "
String[3] = "10"

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

A not-so-elegant solution I just devised:

String text = "H:7 E:7 P:10";
String pattern = "[HEP]:";
text = text.replaceAll(pattern, "");
String[] attr = text.split(" ");