How to Split a String based on the nth(Ex: second) occurence of a delimiter.whereas other than the nth occurence ,all other delimiters should be retained
I/P:
String name="This is my First Line";
int delimiter=" ";
int count=3;//This is a dynamic value
O/P:
String firstpart=This is my
String Secondpart=First Line
Due to limitations with regex, you can't split it in 1 line of code, but you can do it in 2 lines:
String firstPart = name.replaceAll("^((.*?" + delimiter + "){" + count + "}).*", "$1");
String secondPart = name.replaceAll("^(.*?" + delimiter + "){" + count + "}(.*)", "$2");
Pattern.quote(delimiter) in case of string contains dot for example This.is.my.First.Line :)I got it like this
String name="This is my First Line";
int count=3;
String s1,s2;
String arr[]=name.split();//default will be space
for(i=0;i<arr.length;i++)
if(i<count)
s1=s1+arr[i]+" "
else
s2=s2+arr[i]+" "
Just use indexOf to search for the delimiter and repeat that until you found it count-times. Here is a snippet:
String name = "This is my First Line";
String delimiter = " ";
int count = 3;
// Repeativly search for the delimiter
int lastIndex = -1;
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
// Begin to search from the position after the last matching index
lastIndex = name.indexOf(delimiter, lastIndex + 1);
// Could not be found
if (lastIndex == -1) {
break;
}
}
// Get the result
if (lastIndex == -1) {
System.out.println("Not found!");
} else {
// Use the index to split
String before = name.substring(0, lastIndex);
String after = name.substring(lastIndex);
// Print the results
System.out.println(before);
System.out.println(after);
}
It will now output
This is my
First Line
Note the whitespace (the delimiter) at the beginning of the last line, you can omit this if you want by using the following code at the end
// Remove the delimiter from the beginning of 'after'
String after = ...
after = after.subString(delimiter.length());
static class FindNthOccurrence
{
String delimiter;
public FindNthOccurrence(String del)
{
this.delimiter = del;
}
public int findAfter(String findIn, int findOccurence)
{
int findIndex = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < findOccurence; i++)
{
findIndex = findIn.indexOf(delimiter, findIndex);
if (findIndex == -1)
{
return -1;
}
}
return findIndex;
}
}
FindNthOccurrence nth = new FindNthOccurrence(" ");
String string = "This is my First Line";
int index = nth.nthOccurrence(string, 2);
String firstPart = string.substring(0, index);
String secondPart = string.substring(index+1);
Simply like this, Tested and work perfectly in Java 8
public String[] split(String input,int at){
String[] out = new String[2];
String p = String.format("((?:[^/]*/){%s}[^/]*)/(.*)",at);
Pattern pat = Pattern.compile(p);
Matcher matcher = pat.matcher(input);
if (matcher.matches()) {
out[0] = matcher.group(1);// left
out[1] = matcher.group(2);// right
}
return out;
}
//Ex: D:/folder1/folder2/folder3/file1.txt
//if at = 2, group(1) = D:/folder1/folder2 and group(2) = folder3/file1.txt
split(String, int)method in theStringclass.indexOf()andsubstring().