Given a string, it would be easy to make a StringTokenizer replacement. The replacement would take the input string, delimiter character, and quote character in it's constructor. Then, in the constructor, it would call the method in StringUtils, and simply use the generated token array as teh backing for the countTokens and nextToken methods.
-----Original Message----- From: Arun Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 1:31 PM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: RE: suggestion for new StringUtils.method Take a look at the following bug entry currently in Bugzilla.... Your idea seems to be an expansion of the desired functionality described by the "bug". I would certainly add the additional behaviour you propose (escape characters to prevent tokenization) to this bug. It would be interesting, I think, if this functionality was provided as a StringTokenizer replacement (subclass?) in line with Stephen's comment on the bug. (This could be as simple as a delegation to a StringUtils method, or a StringUtils convenience method could delegate to the StringTokenizer replacement.) Cheers, -AMT -----Original Message----- From: Inger, Matthew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:03 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: suggestion for new StringUtils.method The following method might be extremely useful for people: String [] undelimit(String input, char separatorChar, char quoteChar); This method splits a string according to a Delimiter seperated format (CSV) for example. It takes into account quoting, as well as allowing for empty tokens. So a string like the following: a, , b, "c,d,e", "f""g""h", would return the following tokens: 1- a 2- <blank> 3- b 4- c,d,e 5- f"g"h 6- <blank> It happens to strip leading whitespace, but i could always make that optional. It's an extremely efficient algorithm which runs through the underlying character array one character at a time to build the tokens. Any thoughts? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
