Question

I want to use whitespace as a delimiter in a split function call, but there are certain words that I want to enter into a single cell array; such as ma kore.

For example:

String str =  "azx cd ma kore cfg ma kore dfgh";

And after the function split call with some delimiter the output should look like this:

str[0] = "azx"  
str[1] = "cd"   
str[2] = "ma kore"  
str[3] = "cfg"  
str[4] = "ma kore"  
str[5] = "dfgh"

I need to find a delimiter (or regex pattern) to use in the split function. How do I go about doing that?

Answer 1

Use regex pattern

(?:^|(?<=\s))(ma kore|\S+)(?:$|(?=\s))

and find all matches/occurrences.