Java StringTokenizer, empty null tokens

Question

I am trying to split a string into 29 tokens..... stringtokenizer won\'t return null tokens. I tried string.split, but I believe I am doing something wrong:

Answer 1

If you want empty tokens to be retained string.split() won't work satisfactorily. StringTokenizer will also not work. I have come with following method, which might be helpful for you:

public static String[] splitTotokens(String line, String delim){
    String s = line;
    int i = 0;

    while (s.contains(delim)) {
        s = s.substring(s.indexOf(delim) + delim.length());
        i++;
    }
    String token = null;
    String remainder = null;
    String[] tokens = new String[i];

    for (int j = 0; j < i; j++) {
        token = line.substring(0, line.indexOf(delim));
        // System.out.print("#" + token + "#");
        tokens[j] = token;
        remainder = line.substring(line.indexOf(delim) + delim.length());
        //System.out.println("#" + remainder + "#");

        line = remainder;
    }
    return tokens;
}