Help - Parsing

[1337kamikaze]

I want to be able to take
What is the Capital of California?/Sacramento/Redding/Georgia/Iran/A
from a text file and seperate it into seperate strings between the /

so it would have like

String question = "What is the Capital of California?
String answer1 = "Sacramento "
etc

I know i need to parse it with / as the delimiter but have no clue on how to do it and have searched on this forum with no avail.

[JosAH]

Use the String.split() method; it returns an array with the separate components.
For details read the API documentation.

kind regards,

Jos

[Nepomuk]

Use the String.split() method; it returns an array with the separate components.
For details read the API documentation.

kind regards,

Jos

Wow, Jos not suggesting Regular expressions, where they could be used? ^^

Just kidding, String.split() is the easiest way to go here.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

[Laharl]

To quote Larry Wall, "Sometimes a programmer has a problem, so he decides to use regular expressions to solve that problem. Now he has two problems."

Regex is not always the answer, even in Perl.

[Ganon11]

To quote Larry Wall, "Sometimes a programmer has a problem, so he decides to use regular expressions to solve that problem. Now he has two problems."

Regex is not always the answer, even in Perl.

I take offense to that, sir. Regular expressions are ALWAYS the answer:

my @list = split //, $really_long_string; // Whee, using Perl to make a C-string.
if ($big_word =~ /r/) {
   print "\$big_word has an 'r' in it - yes it does!  It most certainly does!\n";
}
if ($a_string =~ /^q$/) {
   print "\$a_string IS 'q'!  Why bother using the eq operator!?\n";
}

All VERY, VERY useful applications of regexps.

(please add more emphasis to the VERYs at your discretion)

[r035198x]

I just thought I might add that the String.split method uses a regular expression to do the split.