Question

I’ve a string which contains data concatenated by pipe (|)

Example: 5|[e-mail]|477|en|87477

The string has ~15 fields concatenated by pipe.

It could be possible that some field may have empty data:
Example: 5|[e-mail]||en|87477

How can I efficiently get all the individual fields in Java 1.6?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Consider using the Split method offered by java

String str = "5|[e-mail]|477|en|87477";
String[] data = str.split("\\|");
for(String s : data){
    System.out.println(s);
}

The output i get is

5
[e-mail]
477
en
87477

As it’s just an array of string you access the data as you want, ie data[1] gives [e-mail]