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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.splitPreserveAllTokens() API. It splits the given string into array of tokens using whitespace as a separator by preserving all tokens, including empty tokens created by adjacent separators.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/commons_lang/tests/strings/SplitPreserveTokensTest.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 SplitPreserveTokensTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) {

     

    String [] tokens = StringUtils.splitPreserveAllTokens(null);

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

    

    tokens = StringUtils.splitPreserveAllTokens("");

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

    

    tokens = StringUtils.splitPreserveAllTokens("be the coder");

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

    

    tokens = StringUtils.splitPreserveAllTokens(" java ");

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

    

    tokens = StringUtils.splitPreserveAllTokens("java   tutorials");

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

  }



}

Split Preserve Tokens