Question

I want to produce an array that splits a string based on either a string of text within it that it called "stop" and I also want to split based on the presence of a new line (\n).

However, it doesn’t seem to split based on the presence of a new line, how would I do this? So far I have:

String[] myArray = str.split(“stop”);

But I want to include splits are a new line, but I can’t seem to do this through the methods I have tried.

The data returned is a string containing something such as the following:

data1stopdata2stopdata3\n

So I would want to put the strings data1 and data2 into the array, and then also data3 into the array without the additional line.

Answer 1

Use split("stop|\\n"). The argument to String#split is a String that contains a regular expression.

Have a look at http://www.vogella.de/articles/JavaRegularExpressions/article.html and http://www.regular-expressions.info/java.html. They discuss exactly your problem.