Question

I’ve got this string which basically contains a conversation, and I want to “filter” out 1 person’s text with the Pattern class.

The conversation looks like this:

Jack: Hi
John: Hello
Jack: How are you?
John: I'm cool, how 'bout you?
Jack: I'm cool too.

I am trying to put every different line in a different string/different array.

So I wrote this method:

private String getFrom(String in, String type) {
    String patr = "", Return = "";
    if (type == "title") {
        patr = "Jack:";
    }

    Pattern patr = Pattern.compile(patr);
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(in);

    while (matcher.find()) {
        Return = main.substring(matcher.start(), matcher.end());
    }

    if (type == "title") {
        Return = Return.substring(0, Return.length());
    }
    return Return;
}

The code results in:

String someteststring = "Jack: HiJack: How are you?Jack: I'm cool too." 

However, I don’t want this, I want every found pattern to be put in a single different string, like this:

someteststring[0] = "Jack: Hi"
someteststring[1] = "Jack: How are you?"
someteststring[2] = "Jack: I'm cool too." 

I hope this explains it, can anyone help?

Answer 1

String[] finalText = somteststring.split("\n");