Question

My android application takes sms messages from a BroadcastReceiver and copies the message into a new sms. Then forwards it. Due to technical reasons I must to split the sms and copy only the portions after split[2]:

  public string splitAndReturnRest(String inputStr)
  {
     String[] split = inputStr.split("\\s"); // split where spaces
     // now ignore split[0], split[1], split [2], copy rest of the split parts into
     String restOfTheSplits=//copy rest of the splits except split[0], split[1], split[2]

      return restOfTheSplits;
 }

The problem is I can’t just hard code it. I do not know how many parts the message contains. So the number of elements after split[2] is unknown to me and may change every time. Perhaps I need some kind of for loop, or a different split criteria?

Answer 1

After split[2], use the following….

String restOfTheSplits = null;
for (int i=3 ; i<split.length; i++)
{
  restOfTheSplits = restOfTheSplits + split[i];
}
return restOfTheSplits

Its even better if you use StringBuilder to get the restOfTheSplits and then convert it to String and return it….