Question

I have a string which comes from the DB.
the string is something like this:-

ABC:def,ghi:jkl,hfh:fhgh,ahf:jasg

In short String:String, and it repeats for large values.

I need to parse this string to get only the words without any : or , and store each word in ArrayList

I can do it using split function(twice) but I figured out that using regex I can do it one go and get the arraylist..

String strLine="category:hello,good:bye,wel:come";
        Pattern titlePattern = Pattern.compile("[a-z]");
        Matcher titleMatcher = titlePattern.matcher(strLine);
        int i=0;
        while(titleMatcher.find())
        {
            i=titleMatcher.start();
            System.out.println(strLine.charAt(i));  
        }

However it is not giving me proper results..It ends up giving me index of match found and then I need to append it which is not so logical and efficient,.

Is there any way around..

Answer 1

String strLine="category:hello,good:bye,wel:come";
String a[] = strLine.split("[,:]");
for(String s :a)
    System.out.println(s);