Is possible to substring this String = "D:/test/for test/change.txt:D:/test/for test/further.txt:D:/test/for test/yandex.txt" to:
D:/test/for test/change.txt
D:/test/for test/further.txt
D:/test/for test/yandex.txt
Because are two column, I can not split() use ":".
It looks to me like you want to split on a colon whenever it's not followed by a slash. For that, the regular expression you need is a "negative lookahead", which means "not followed by". So you should write myString.split(":(?!/)") - the (?! ) is how to write the negative lookahead.
You can simply split it on :(?=[A-Za-z]:\/) which can be explained as
: : The character :(?= : Start of lookahead
[A-Za-z] : An alphabet:\\/ : The character : followed by /) : End of lookaheadDemo:
import java.util.Arrays;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String str = "D:/test/for test/change.txt:D:/test/for test/further.txt:D:/test/for test/yandex.txt";
String[] paths = str.split(":(?=[A-Za-z]:\\/)");
Arrays.stream(paths).forEach(System.out::println);
}
}
Output:
D:/test/for test/change.txt
D:/test/for test/further.txt
D:/test/for test/yandex.txt
A simple regular expression below splits on ":" that are followed by a "driveletter:"
String s = "D:/test/for test/change.txt:D:/test/for test/further.txt:D:/test/for test/yandex.txt";
s.split(":(?=\\w:)");
==> String[3] { "D:/test/for test/change.txt"
, "D:/test/for test/further.txt"
, "D:/test/for test/yandex.txt" }
Note that this won't help if additional paths don't begin with driveletter:
:D:to{SPACE}D:and split by space eg.replace(":D:"," D:").split(" ");