Question

I have one text box in the User Interface where in user is asked to key in some input , which in turn i am saving in database , which finally i have to show in the dynamically populated dropdown list . since the user can type in any ways in the text box as in

1. XXXXXX

2. XXXXXX
   or

   1.XXXXXX ,2. XXXXXXX

or
XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXX

but i want to just get the value of these so that i can show just text value in my dropdown .

Can someone help in parsing this stuff.

Answer 1

It depends on the formats you are supposed to parse. If they are exactly the above three, then:

1. get rid of all digits with string.replaceAll("\\d\\.", "")
2. split on comma or split on new line (str.split("\\n")
3. str.trim() everything, just in case