This is an example of how to split a String using regular expression. Splitting a String with a regular expression implies that you should:
- Compile a given String regular expression to a Pattern, using
compile(string regex)API method of Pattern. The given regular expression in the example is the String “ian”. - Use
split(CharSequence input)API method of Pattern to split the given input sequence around matches of this pattern. It returns an array of strings. - Print the array fields to check on the matches of the pattern.
Let’s take a look at the code snippet that follows:
package com.javacodegeeks.snippets.core;
import java.util.regex.*;
/**
* Split a String into a Java Array of Strings divided by an RE
*/
public class RegExSplit {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String[] splits = Pattern.compile("ian").split("the darwinian devonian explodian chicken");
for (int i = 0; i < splits.length; i++) {
System.out.println(i + " "" + splits[i] + """);
}
}
}
Output:
0 "the darwin"
1 " devon"
2 " explod"
3 " chicken"
This was an example of how to split a String using regular expression in Java.
