Converting a sentence string to a string array of words in Java

Question

I need my Java program to take a string like:

\"This is a sample sentence.\"

and turn it into a string array like:

{\"this\         


        

Answer 1

Try using the following:

String str = "This is a simple sentence";
String[] strgs = str.split(" ");

That will create a substring at each index of the array of strings using the space as a split point.

Answer 2

Another way to do that is StringTokenizer. ex:-

 public static void main(String[] args) {

    String str = "This is a sample string";
    StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(str," ");
    String starr[]=new String[st.countTokens()];
    while (st.hasMoreElements()) {
        starr[i++]=st.nextElement();
    }
}

Answer 3

You can use simple following code

String str= "This is a sample sentence.";
String[] words = str.split("[[ ]*|[//.]]");
for(int i=0;i<words.length;i++)
System.out.print(words[i]+" ");

Answer 4

You can also use BreakIterator.getWordInstance.