BE THE CODER > Tools and Libs > Commons Lang3 Examples > Strings

Apache Commons Lang 3.0 is a java library with lot of utilities and reusable components. This requires the library commons-lang3-3.0.1.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows using StringUtils.split() API. It splits the given string into array of tokens using specified separator characters.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/commons_lang/tests/strings/SplitCharsTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.commons_lang.tests.strings;



import java.util.Arrays;



import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;



public class SplitCharsTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) {

     

    String [] tokens = StringUtils.split(null, "abcd");

    System.out.println(Arrays.toString(tokens));

    

    tokens = StringUtils.split("d = a + b + c", " =+");

    System.out.println(Arrays.toString(tokens));

  

    tokens = StringUtils.split("ababcdabbacd", "ad");

    System.out.println(Arrays.toString(tokens));

  

    tokens = StringUtils.split("be the coder", " ");

    System.out.println(Arrays.toString(tokens));

    

    tokens = StringUtils.split("java > commons > lang examples", "> ");

    System.out.println(Arrays.toString(tokens));

  }



}

Split Chars