string split method

[developerinlondon]

I am trying to use the split method to split a string by '|' into an array of strings, the code looks like belwo:

String s = "first sentence|second sentence|third sentence";
String[] slist = s.split("|");

now if I want to iterate over slist I find that it put all the letters in individually, ie f, i, r, s, t,... etc.

any ideas how i can get it to split by bar? (i tried s.split("\|"), that doesnt compile.

thanks in advance.

 

[sedj]

s.split("\\|");

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[developerinlondon]

thanks!
I was trying with the StringTokenizer also and got that working too -

       StringTokenizer url_list = new StringTokenizer(request.getParameter("urls"),"|");
        String[] urls = new String[url_list.countTokens()];
        for (int i = 0; i < urls.length;i++) {
                urls[i] = url_list.nextToken();
        }

however I found some benchmarks on the net that StringTokenizers works faster then split? Is this true in this case also? I seem to be getting the exact same result when I benchmark it. Maybe its something new in Java 5? Or am I better off with StringTokenizer for best performance?

thanks

 

[sedj]

When String.split() was introdcued in Java 1.4, Sun said that StringTokenizer should be avoided, and String.split() should be used.

Unless you're writing seriously tight code, use which one you feel more comfortable with. I doubt you'll ever see the difference, if there is any, between the two.

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