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From: laredotornado@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: Keeping the split token in a Java regular expression
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:21:07 -0700 (PDT)
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On Monday, March 26, 2012 1:54:40 PM UTC-5, laredotornado wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using Java 6.  I want to split a Java string on a regular
> expression, but I would like to keep part of the string used to split
> in the results.  What I have are Strings like
> 
>     Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 2 PM, Sun 2:30 PM
> 
> What I would like to do is split the expression wherever I have an
> expression matching /(am|pm),?/i .  Hopefully I got that right.  In
> the above example, I would like the results to be
> 
>     Fri 7:30 PM
>     Sat 2 PM
>     Sun 2:30 PM
> 
> But with String.split, the split token is not kept within the
> results.  How would I write a Java parsing expression to do what I
> want?
> 
> Thanks, - Dave

Hi, I don't want to split on the comma because there could be a case where the given String is "Fri 8 PM, Sat 1, 3, and 5 PM" and in this case, I want the result to be a String array containing

Fri 8 PM
Sat 1, 3, and 5 PM

Your continued help is appreciated, - Dave