How to split a String by space

Question

I need to split my String by spaces. For this I tried:

str = "Hello I'm your String";
String[] splited = str.split(" ");

But it doesn't seem to work.

Answer 1

Simple to Spit String by Space

    String CurrentString = "First Second Last";
    String[] separated = CurrentString.split(" ");

    for (int i = 0; i < separated.length; i++) {

         if (i == 0) {
             Log.d("FName ** ", "" + separated[0].trim() + "\n ");
         } else if (i == 1) {
             Log.d("MName ** ", "" + separated[1].trim() + "\n ");
         } else if (i == 2) {
             Log.d("LName ** ", "" + separated[2].trim());
         }
     }

Answer 2

OK, so we have to do splitting as you already got the answer I would generalize it.

If you want to split any string by spaces, delimiter(special chars).

First, remove the leading space as they create most of the issues.

str1 = "    Hello I'm your       String    ";
str2 = "    Are you serious about this question_  boy, aren't you?   ";

First remove the leading space which can be space, tab etc.

String s = str1.replaceAll("^\\s+","");//starting with whitespace one or more

Now if you want to split by space or any special char.

String[] sa = s.split("[^\\w]+");//split by any non word char

But as w contains [a-zA-Z_0-9] ,so if you want to split by underscore(_) also use

 String[] sa = s.split("[!,? ._'@]+");//for str2 after removing leading space

Answer 3

Since it's been a while since these answers were posted, here's another more current way to do what's asked:

List<String> output = new ArrayList<>();
try (Scanner sc = new Scanner(inputString)) {
    while (sc.hasNext()) output.add(sc.next());
}

Now you have a list of strings (which is arguably better than an array); if you do need an array, you can do output.toArray(new String[0]);

Answer 4

Try this one

    String str = "This is String";
    String[] splited = str.split("\\s+");

    String split_one=splited[0];
    String split_second=splited[1];
    String split_three=splited[2];

   Log.d("Splited String ", "Splited String" + split_one+split_second+split_three);

Answer 5

While the accepted answer is good, be aware that you will end up with a leading empty string if your input string starts with a white space. For example, with:

String str = " Hello I'm your String";
String[] splitStr = str.split("\\s+");

The result will be:

splitStr[0] == "";
splitStr[1] == "Hello";
splitStr[2] == "I'm";
splitStr[3] == "Your";
splitStr[4] == "String";

So you might want to trim your string before splitting it:

String str = " Hello I'm your String";
String[] splitStr = str.trim().split("\\s+");

Answer 6

you can saperate string using the below code

   String thisString="Hello world";

   String[] parts = theString.split(" ");

   String first = parts[0];//"hello"

    String second = parts[1];//"World"