Hi Shawn, Solrj’s StrUtils.splitSmart() should do exactly what you want - in the first pass, split on semicolon and don’t decode backslash escaping, and then in the inner loop, use the same method to split on colons and decode backslash escaping. I think :).
Steve On Jan 14, 2014, at 10:07 AM, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> wrote: > I have a Java question, for a custom update processor I'm developing. It > takes an input field of the following format: > > field:value;mvfield:value1;mvfield:value2 > > With an inner delimiter set to a colon and an outer delimiter set to a > semicolon, this results in two new fields going into the document. The > field named 'field' has one value and the field named mvfield has two. > > This code uses the String#split method, so it can't deal with the > delimiter characters being escaped with a backslash. > > How can I make the code deal with an escape character (backslash) on the > two delimiters and the escape character itself? Unless it's absolutely > necessary or super easy, I do not plan to deal with the full set of regex > escaped characters. > > I can move this discussion to the development list, but I thought I would > start here. > > Thanks, > Shawn > >
