How to split a String by space

java string split arrays
safari picture safari · Oct 26, 2011 · Viewed 786.6k times · Source

I need to split my String by spaces. For this I tried:

str = "Hello I'm your String";
String[] splited = str.split(" ");

But it doesn't seem to work.

Answer

corsiKa picture corsiKa · Oct 26, 2011

What you have should work. If, however, the spaces provided are defaulting to... something else? You can use the whitespace regex:

str = "Hello I'm your String";
String[] splited = str.split("\\s+");

This will cause any number of consecutive spaces to split your string into tokens.

As a side note, I'm not sure "splited" is a word :) I believe the state of being the victim of a split is also "split". It's one of those tricky grammar things :-) Not trying to be picky, just figured I'd pass it on!

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