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

i use the following java 8 solution:

public static List<String> splitString(final String string, final int chunkSize) {
  final int numberOfChunks = (string.length() + chunkSize - 1) / chunkSize;
  return IntStream.range(0, numberOfChunks)
                  .mapToObj(index -> string.substring(index * chunkSize, Math.min((index + 1) * chunkSize, string.length())))
                  .collect(toList());
}

Answer 2

Another brute force solution could be,

    String input = "thequickbrownfoxjumps";
    int n = input.length()/4;
    String[] num = new String[n];

    for(int i = 0, x=0, y=4; i<n; i++){
    num[i]  = input.substring(x,y);
    x += 4;
    y += 4;
    System.out.println(num[i]);
    }

Where the code just steps through the string with substrings

Answer 3

public static List<String> getSplittedString(String stringtoSplit,
            int length) {

        List<String> returnStringList = new ArrayList<String>(
                (stringtoSplit.length() + length - 1) / length);

        for (int start = 0; start < stringtoSplit.length(); start += length) {
            returnStringList.add(stringtoSplit.substring(start,
                    Math.min(stringtoSplit.length(), start + length)));
        }

        return returnStringList;
    }

Answer 4

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);
}

Answer 5

Here is a one liner implementation using Java8 streams:

String input = "Thequickbrownfoxjumps";
final AtomicInteger atomicInteger = new AtomicInteger(0);
Collection<String> result = input.chars()
                                    .mapToObj(c -> String.valueOf((char)c) )
                                    .collect(Collectors.groupingBy(c -> atomicInteger.getAndIncrement() / 4
                                                                ,Collectors.joining()))
                                    .values();

It gives the following output:

[Theq, uick, brow, nfox, jump, s]

Answer 6

Here's a one-liner version which uses Java 8 IntStream to determine the indexes of the slice beginnings:

String x = "Thequickbrownfoxjumps";

String[] result = IntStream
                    .iterate(0, i -> i + 4)
                    .limit((int) Math.ceil(x.length() / 4.0))
                    .mapToObj(i ->
                        x.substring(i, Math.min(i + 4, x.length())
                    )
                    .toArray(String[]::new);