Question

I have this String extracted from a body of an e-mail

"DESTINATION: 71222222 PRIORITY: urgent AUTRE: rien"

I am looking to extract the strings "71222222", "urgent" and "rien".

I have tried the class Scanner but it did not work.

Which is the best solution to do it in Java?

Answer 1

try this

String text = "DESTINATION: 71222222 PRIORITY: urgent AUTRE: rien";

String[]lines = text.replace(": ", ":").split(" ");     
String[]values = new String[lines.length];
int i=0;
for(String line : lines){
   values[i++] = line.split(":")[1];
}
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(values));

the output is

[ 71222222,  urgent,  rien]

you can also try this

String text = "DESTINATION: 71222222 PRIORITY: urgent AUTRE: rien";

StringTokenizer tokinizer = new StringTokenizer(text,": ");

while(tokinizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
    tokinizer.nextToken();  //skip first
    System.out.println(tokinizer.nextToken());
}