org.ephman.utils
Class Tokenizer

java.lang.Object
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public class Tokenizer

extends java.lang.Object

a class to split strings by a given token while skipping comments denoted by the given string literal

Version:

0.0.1

Author:

Paul M. Bethe

Constructor Summary

Tokenizer()

Method Summary

static java.util.Vector

tokenize(java.lang.String theLine, java.lang.String seperator, java.lang.String literal) tokenize will split theLine using seperator but ignoring string literal e.g.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Tokenizer

public Tokenizer()

Method Detail

tokenize

public static java.util.Vector tokenize(java.lang.String theLine,
                                        java.lang.String seperator,
                                        java.lang.String literal)

tokenize will split theLine using seperator but ignoring string literal e.g. line = "Hi mom, I really miss you, 'Thanks, for everything'" tokenize (line, ",", "'"); returns ["Hi mom", "I really miss you", "Thanks, for everything"]