Question

There are other posts I know, but they aren’t about java.
What I’m asking for is a way to check if a string contains a word that is longer than 56 characters. I want then to insert a ” ” inside the word(probably in the middle). I want the spaces in the original string to remain there.(split(” “) doesn’t help me because of that).

Answer 1

Pattern.compile("\\w{56,}").matcher(string).find()

assuming, of course, your definition of “word” matches Pattern’s definition of “word character”: [a-zA-Z_0-9]

To unpack, that just looks for 56 or more consecutive word characters.

If you liked, you could even hold on to the Matcher object, which would let you get the start() and end() of the 56+ letter word.