I have a String which is formatted as such
[dgdds,dfse][fsefsf,sefs][fsfs,fsef]
How would I use Regex to quickly parse this to return an ArrayList with each value containing one "entry" as such?
ArrayList <String>:
0(String): [dgdds,dfse]
1(String): [fsefsf,sefs]
2(String): [fsfs,fsef]
Really stuck with this, any help would be great.
How about
String myData = "[dgdds,dfse][fsefsf,sefs][fsfs,fsef]";
List<String> list = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(myData
.split("(?<=\\])")));
for (String s : list)
System.out.println(s);
Output:
[dgdds,dfse]
[fsefsf,sefs]
[fsfs,fsef]
This regex will use look behind mechanism to split on each place after ].
You should try this regex :
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\[\\w*,\\w*\\]");
Old, easy, awesome way :)
String s = "[dgdds,dfse][fsefsf,sefs][fsfs,fsef]";
String[] token = s.split("]");
for (String string : token) {
System.out.println(string + "]");
}
You can use simple \[.*?\] regex, which means: match a string starting with [, later zero or more characters (but as short as possible, not greedly, that's why the ? in .*?), ending with ].
This works, you can test it on Ideone:
List<String> result = new ArrayList<String>();
String input = "[dgdds,dfse][fsefsf,sefs][fsfs,fsef]";
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\[.*?\\]");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(input);
while (matcher.find())
{
result.add(matcher.group());
}
System.out.println(result);
Output:
[[dgdds,dfse], [fsefsf,sefs], [fsfs,fsef]]
You may need to do it in two passes:
(1) Split out by the brackets if it's just a 1D array (not clear in the question):
String s = "[dgdds,dfse][fsefsf,sefs][fsfs,fsef]";
String[] sArray = s.split("\\[|\\]\\[|\\]");
(2) Split by the commas if you want to also divide, say "dgdds,dfse"
sArray[i].split(",");
We can use split(regex) function directly by escaping "]": "\\]" and then use it as the regex for pattern matching:
String str = "[dgdds,dfse][fsefsf,sefs][fsfs,fsef]";
String bal[] = str.split("\\]");
ArrayList<String>finalList = new ArrayList<>();
for(String s:bal)
{
finalList.add(s+"]");
}
System.out.println(finalList);
