Split string to equal length substrings in Java

Question

How to split the string \"Thequickbrownfoxjumps\" to substrings of equal size in Java. Eg. \"Thequickbrownfoxjumps\" of 4 equal size should give th

Answer 1

This is very easy with Google Guava:

for(final String token :
    Splitter
        .fixedLength(4)
        .split("Thequickbrownfoxjumps")){
    System.out.println(token);
}

Output:

Theq
uick
brow
nfox
jump
s

Or if you need the result as an array, you can use this code:

String[] tokens =
    Iterables.toArray(
        Splitter
            .fixedLength(4)
            .split("Thequickbrownfoxjumps"),
        String.class
    );

Reference:

• Splitter.fixedLength()
• Splitter.split()
• Iterables.toArray()

Note: Splitter construction is shown inline above, but since Splitters are immutable and reusable, it's a good practice to store them in constants:

private static final Splitter FOUR_LETTERS = Splitter.fixedLength(4);

// more code

for(final String token : FOUR_LETTERS.split("Thequickbrownfoxjumps")){
    System.out.println(token);
}