Reading and using delimited text

[Gangrel]

What's the easiest way to accompish this? We currently have the following code that takes what the user enters into a text box and retrieves the item.

<html:link href="" titleKey="itracker.web.header.quickview.alt" onclick="document.lookupForm.submit();" styleClass="headerLinks">
                <bean:message key="itracker.web.header.quickview"/> </html:link>
                <input type="text" name="id" size="5" class="lookupBox" onchange="document.lookupForm.submit();">

What we would like to do is allow the user to enter in multiple numbers, separated by a comma, and then display all of the items.

Is there any shortcut to this, or do i have to read each character in the box one at a time until i hit a comma and then use the numbers I just read?

Thanks in advance for any tips or tricks! (being Halloween and all...)

 

[Diancecht]

You want to do that client-side or server-side?

Cheers,
Dian

 

[Gangrel]

The app is a JSP app running under jboss, so on the server side..... (unless my coffee hasn't kicked in yet)

 

[Diancecht]

So what do you have so far?

I guess String.split method or StringTokenizer class is what you're looking for.

Cheers,
Dian