Question

I have strings of the form:
something~#~something.

Essentially I am using ~#~ as a delimiter, but I would like to only split the first element from the rest of the elements.

For instance, if I had the following string:
What~#~AGreat~#~Day

I would like my first match to be “What”
and my second match to be “AGreat~#~Day.

The actual strings I’m working with look like this:
A1~#~@NP->_A1
So they’re not limited to alphanumeric characters. Can anyone help? I tried looking around for a similar problem but I can’t seem to get it working.

Thanks!

Answer 1

String first = input.substring(0, input.indexOf("~#~"));
String second = input.substring(input.indexOf("~#~") + 3, input.length());

Output:

first:  What
second: AGreat~#~Day