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I would like to tokenize the following string. "I went home with Mark's brother, to play a video game." result should be like this.

I
went
home
with
Mark
'
s
brother
to
,
play
a
video
game
.

Can you please tell me how to do it using regex.

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  • do you have some code you tried so far? Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 9:52
  • yes the dot is in. and sorry the comma is also in. I just corrected it. Commented Jul 18, 2012 at 9:53

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If you really want the ,, . and ' as separate tokens, you could split like this:

String str = "I went home with Mark's brother, to play a video game.";
String[] tokens = str.split("(\\s|(?=[,.'])|(?<=[,.']))");
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