Question

I have an input that looks like: (0 0 0)
I would like to ignore the parenthesis and only add the numbers, in this case 0, to an arraylist.
I am using scanner to read from a file and this is what I have so far

    transitionInput = data.nextLine();
    st = new StringTokenizer(transitionInput,"()", true);
    while (st.hasMoreTokens())
    {
        transition.add(st.nextToken(","));
    }

However, the output looks like this [(0 0 0)]
I would like to ignore the parentheses

Answer 1

You are first using () as delimiters, then switching to ,, but you are switching before extracting the first token (the text between parentheses).

What you probably intended to do is this:

transitionInput = data.nextLine();
st = new StringTokenizer(transitionInput,"()", false);
if (st.hasMoreTokens())
{
    String chunk = st.nextToken();
    st = new StringTokenizer(chunk, ",");
    while (st.hasMoreTokens())
    {
        transition.add(st.nextToken());
    }
}

This code assumes that the expression always starts and ends with parentheses. If this is the case, you may as well remove them manually using String.substring(). Also, you may want to consider using String.split() to do the actual splitting:

String transitionInput = data.nextLine();
transitionInput = transitionInput.substring(1, transitionInput.length() - 1);
for (String s : transitionInput.split(","))
    transition.add(s);

Note that both examples assume that commas are used as separators, as in your sample code (although the text of your question says otherwise)