Splitting a string with multiple spaces

Question

I want to split a string like

\"first     middle  last\" 

with String.split(). But when i try to split it I get

Answer 1

How about using something that is provided out of the box by Android SDK.

TextUtils.split(stringToSplit, " +");

Answer 2

try using this s.split("\\s+");

Answer 3

Since the argument to split() is a regular expression, you can look for one or more spaces (" +") instead of just one space (" ").

String[] array = s.split(" +");

Answer 4

This worked for me.

s.split(/\s+/)

var foo = "first     middle  last";

console.log(foo.split(/\s+/));

Answer 5

Since split() uses regular expressions, you can do something like s.split("\\s+") to set the split delimiter to be any number of whitespace characters.

Answer 6

if you have a string like

String s = "This is a test string  This is the next part    This is the third part";

and want to get an array like

String[] sArray = { "This is a test string", "This is the next part", "This is the third part" }

you should try

String[] sArray = s.split("\\s{2,}");

The {2,} part defines that at least 2 and up to almost infinity whitespace characters are needed for the split to occur.