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Utilities.words

Parses a string into a vector of words. The separator specifies the character that serves as the delimiter between words. White space is removed from both ends of each word parsed, using String.trim().

This method has two variants:

• words (Variant 1) accepts integers as delimiters.

• words (Variant 2) accepts strings as delimiters.

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Utilities.words

Parses a string into a vector of words.

Syntax

public static final 
Vector words(String str,
             int sep)

Parameters

str

String of words to parse.

sep

The separator character.

Description

The words method parses a string into a vector of words. The separator specifies the character that serves as the delimiter between words. White space is removed from both ends of each word parsed, using String.trim().

Returns

Returns a vector of words (may be empty).

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Utilities.words

Parses a string into a vector of words.

Syntax

public static final Vector 
words(String str,
      String sep)

Parameters

str

String of words to parse.

sep

String of separating characters.

Description

The words method parses a string into a vector of words. The separator specifies the string of characters that serves as the delimiter between words. Whitespace is removed from both ends of each word parsed, using String.trim().

Returns

Returns a vector of words (may be empty).

Examples

The following code returns a vector containing the three strings "Jack", "Jill", "Little Alice".

Utilities.words( "Jack and Jill and Little Alice", "and" ); 

The following code returns an empty vector, not a vector containing two empty strings:

Utilities.words ( " and ", "and" );

 

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