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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Keeping the split token in a Java regular expression
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:01:44 +0200
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On 03/26/2012 09:22 PM, Lew wrote:
> laredotornado wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Based on what you've shown it looks like you could split on the comma and trim the resulting strings.

And one wouldn't even need a regular expression for that.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/StringTokenizer.html

Kind regards

	robert