RegExp Help

[LucL]

Hey Guys,

I'm trying to extract the individual columns returned by an FTP server on a "dir" call which lists files and directories in the path.

The fields are divided using spaces, but I don't know how to seperate them out (if there is a way to do this).

Sample output:

-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1002893 Jan 24 19:07 13(1).wmv.FLV
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 973448 Jan 24 19:07 13(2).wmv.FLV
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 582040 Jan 24 19:07 13(3).wmv.FLV
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 6135869 Jan 24 19:08 13(4).wmv.FLV
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 370270 Jan 24 19:08 13(5).wmv.FLV
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 978788 Jan 24 19:08 13(6).wmv.FLV
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 302864 Jan 24 19:08 13(7).wmv.FLV
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 863366 Jan 24 19:07 13.wmv.FLV
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 277817 Jan 24 19:09 14(1).wmv.FLV
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 302864 Jan 24 19:09 14(2).wmv.FLV
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4249088 Jan 24 19:10 14(3).wmv.FLV
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 885311 Jan 24 19:10 14(4).wmv.FLV

I need the permissions "-rw-rw-rw", the owner "root", size "xxxxx", mod_date, etc but know of no easy way to parse that data since the amount of spaces varies based on the output for each line.

In PHP, the pgrep_split function does the trick ($current = preg_split("/[\s]+/",$row,9) ) but I don't know of an equivelent in Java.

Thanks!
Luc L.

 

[feherke]

Hi

String.split()

current = row.split("[\s]+",9);

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[LucL]

Thanks!

Didn't realize you could use regexp in split.

Learn something new ever day.