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breaking up a String... (a bit more advance)

Jul 4th, 2006

Hello everyone!

Any help would be much appreciated!

My problem:

I want to break up a string into separate objects.

Scenario:

I am reading a txt file into my program and I want to
separate the String in to separate categories.

String line = "BATHROOM TOI 48157 Y DOVE BWASH MCDAMIA 375ML 6 NEW" ;

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 String line = "BATHROOM TOI    48157   Y   DOVE BWASH MCDAMIA 375ML             6  NEW" ;

to

String category = "BARTHROOM TOI" ;
String sku = "48157" ;
String tmp = "Y" ;
String description "DOVE BWASH....." ;
etc..
etc...

Any help would be much appreciated

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Re: breaking up a String... (a bit more advance)

Jul 4th, 2006

Looking at your string I assume that the different parts of the string are
seperate4d by a TAB character. If so do the following:

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String line = "BATHROOM TOI    48157   Y   DOVE BWASH MCDAMIA 375ML             6  NEW" ;
String[] parts = line.split("\\t");
//parts[0] = "BATHROOM TOI";
//parts[1] = "48157";
// etc. etc
String line = "BATHROOM TOI    48157   Y   DOVE BWASH MCDAMIA 375ML             6  NEW" ;
String[] parts = line.split("\\t");
//parts[0] = "BATHROOM TOI";
//parts[1] = "48157";
// etc. etc

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Re: breaking up a String... (a bit more advance)

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Originally Posted by masijade

Looking at your string I assume that the different parts of the string are
seperate4d by a TAB character. If so do the following:
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String line = "BATHROOM TOI    48157   Y   DOVE BWASH MCDAMIA 375ML             6  NEW" ;
String[] parts = line.split("\\t");
//parts[0] = "BATHROOM TOI";
//parts[1] = "48157";
// etc. etc
String line = "BATHROOM TOI 48157 Y DOVE BWASH MCDAMIA 375ML 6 NEW" ; String[] parts = line.split("\\t"); //parts[0] = "BATHROOM TOI"; //parts[1] = "48157"; // etc. etc

Gee thanks mate, that's pretty close. For the moment I'm now using two separated spaces i.e. line.split(" ") instead of your tab idea - which by the way has given me a GREAT starting point. The data is unfortunately not separated by tabs.
Thank dude!!!

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Re: breaking up a String... (a bit more advance)

Jul 5th, 2006

No problem. And have fun.

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Re: breaking up a String... (a bit more advance)

Jul 5th, 2006

This is a rough draft solution to tha problem. (if your are inferested) Thanks for your help!

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 String description = null ;
        String cat = null ; 
        String sku = null ; 
        String temp = null ; 
        String qty = null ;
        String newLine = null ; 
 
 
        ArrayList list = new ArrayList() ;
        // different combinations. 
        String line = "BATHROOM TOI     48157   Y   DOVE BWASH MCDAMIA 375ML             6  NEW" ;
       //String line = "DEODORANTS       9609       REXONA R/ON 50ML ICE COOL            6" ;
       // String line = "FRAGRANCE       16696   Y   CK ESCAPE EDP 30ML                   2" ;
       // String line = "DEODORANTS       9609       REXONA R/ON 50ML ICE COOL            6  NEW" ;
        String[] parts = line.split("  ");
        for (int i=0; i < parts.length ; i++) {
            if (parts[i].length() != 0) {
                 list.add(parts[i]) ;
            }            
        }
 
        // remove surounding white space - if any
        for (int i=0; i< list.size() ; i++) {
            String ob = (String) list.get(i) ;
            ob = ob.trim() ;
            if (ob.charAt(0) == ' ') {
                int finish = ob.length() ;
                String newString = ob.substring(1, finish);
                ob = newString ;
            }
        list.remove(i);
        list.add(i,ob);      
 
        switch (i) {
            case 0:  cat = ob ; break ; 
            case 1:  sku = ob ; break ;
            case 2: {
                if (ob.equalsIgnoreCase("Y")){
                    temp = "Y" ;
                } 
                else  {
                    description = ob ;                    
                }
 
            }  break ;
 
            case 3: {
                if (description == null) {
                    description = ob; 
                }
                else {
                    qty = ob ;
                }                    
            } break ;
            case 4: {
                if (qty == null) {
                    qty = ob ;
                }
                else if (ob.equalsIgnoreCase("NEW")) {
                    newLine = ob ; 
                }
            } break ; 
            case 5: {
                if (ob.equalsIgnoreCase("NEW")) {
                    newLine = ob ; 
                }
            } break ; 
 
 
        } // end swith
 
        } // end for i
        System.out.println(line);
        System.out.println("");
        System.out.println("Cat: " + cat);
        System.out.println("Sku:" + sku);
        System.out.println("Temp " + temp);
        System.out.println("Description:" + description);
        System.out.println("Qty: " + qty);
        System.out.println("NewLine: " + newLine);
 String description = null ;
        String cat = null ; 
        String sku = null ; 
        String temp = null ; 
        String qty = null ;
        String newLine = null ; 
        
        
        ArrayList list = new ArrayList() ;
        // different combinations. 
        String line = "BATHROOM TOI     48157   Y   DOVE BWASH MCDAMIA 375ML             6  NEW" ;
       //String line = "DEODORANTS       9609       REXONA R/ON 50ML ICE COOL            6" ;
       // String line = "FRAGRANCE       16696   Y   CK ESCAPE EDP 30ML                   2" ;
       // String line = "DEODORANTS       9609       REXONA R/ON 50ML ICE COOL            6  NEW" ;
        String[] parts = line.split("  ");
        for (int i=0; i < parts.length ; i++) {
            if (parts[i].length() != 0) {
                 list.add(parts[i]) ;
            }            
        }
        
        // remove surounding white space - if any
        for (int i=0; i< list.size() ; i++) {
            String ob = (String) list.get(i) ;
            ob = ob.trim() ;
            if (ob.charAt(0) == ' ') {
                int finish = ob.length() ;
                String newString = ob.substring(1, finish);
                ob = newString ;
            }
        list.remove(i);
        list.add(i,ob);      
        
        switch (i) {
            case 0:  cat = ob ; break ; 
            case 1:  sku = ob ; break ;
            case 2: {
                if (ob.equalsIgnoreCase("Y")){
                    temp = "Y" ;
                } 
                else  {
                    description = ob ;                    
                }
                
            }  break ;
            
            case 3: {
                if (description == null) {
                    description = ob; 
                }
                else {
                    qty = ob ;
                }                    
            } break ;
            case 4: {
                if (qty == null) {
                    qty = ob ;
                }
                else if (ob.equalsIgnoreCase("NEW")) {
                    newLine = ob ; 
                }
            } break ; 
            case 5: {
                if (ob.equalsIgnoreCase("NEW")) {
                    newLine = ob ; 
                }
            } break ; 
            
            
        } // end swith
        
        } // end for i
        System.out.println(line);
        System.out.println("");
        System.out.println("Cat: " + cat);
        System.out.println("Sku:" + sku);
        System.out.println("Temp " + temp);
        System.out.println("Description:" + description);
        System.out.println("Qty: " + qty);
        System.out.println("NewLine: " + newLine);

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Re: breaking up a String... (a bit more advance)

Jul 7th, 2006

Is each data chunk given a certain amount of space to be written in and just filled in with blank spaces to pad a smaller value?

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Re: breaking up a String... (a bit more advance)

Jul 7th, 2006

no it's really all random information, but the space between the data is at least two blank spaces between them.

The information is being read from a txt file that was cut and pasted from an email.

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Re: breaking up a String... (a bit more advance)

Jul 9th, 2006

well split() does take a regular expression, so why not just use that?

It looks for 2 or more spaces to be the delimiter.

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        String s = "BATHROOM TOI    48157   Y   DOVE BWASH MCDAMIA 375ML             6  NEW" ;
        String[] tokens = s.split(" {2,}?");
 
        for(int i=0; i<tokens.length; i++)  
            System.out.println(tokens[i]);
        String s = "BATHROOM TOI    48157   Y   DOVE BWASH MCDAMIA 375ML             6  NEW" ;
        String[] tokens = s.split(" {2,}?");
 
        for(int i=0; i<tokens.length; i++)  
            System.out.println(tokens[i]);