Get string from between two characters

Question

I need to get string from between two characters. I have this

S= \"10:21:35 |Manipulation       |Mémoire centrale   |MAJ Registre mémoire\"

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Answer 1

If the length of each column is varient, use the examples given here with the split method.

However, if you have a fixed-sized file format substring will be a much better option. If you look at the implementation of substring (Java 5 and above if I recall correctly) - you can see that it has an O(1) to create the new strings, whereas split uses a regex which is time consuming.