I have a String variable and I want to extract the three substrings separeted by ; to three string variables.
String application_command = "{10,12; 4,5; 2}";
I cannot use substring method because this string can be like any of the following or similar patterns also.
String application_command = "{10,12,13,9,1; 4,5; 2}"
String application_command = "{7; 1,2,14; 1}"
The only thing that is common in these patterns is there are three sections separated by ;.
Any insight is much appreciated.
Thank you
I think you need a split-string-into-string-array
function with a custom separator character.
There are already several sources on the web and at stackoverflow (e.g. Split String into String array).
// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9072320/split-string-into-string-array
String getValue(String data, char separator, int index)
{
int found = 0;
int strIndex[] = {0, -1};
int maxIndex = data.length()-1;
for(int i=0; i<=maxIndex && found<=index; i++){
if(data.charAt(i)==separator || i==maxIndex){
found++;
strIndex[0] = strIndex[1]+1;
strIndex[1] = (i == maxIndex) ? i+1 : i;
}
}
return found>index ? data.substring(strIndex[0], strIndex[1]) : "";
}
You can use this function as follows (with ";" as separator):
String part01 = getValue(application_command,';',0);
String part02 = getValue(application_command,';',1);
String part03 = getValue(application_command,';',2);
EDIT: correct single quotes and add semicolons in the example.