如果出现不同的字符，如何拆分字符串？

Question

I have a string like below:

String str = "77755529";

I want to split this string if different number occur ie result should be like below after splitting :

str1 = "777";
str2 = "555";
str3 = "2";
str4 = "9";

I tried it with split but could not make it.

Answer 1

Try this:

String   str = "77755529";
String[] res = str.split("(?<=(.))(?!\\1)");

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Answer 2

You may do matching.

List<String> lst = new ArrayList<String>();
Matcher m = Pattern.compile("(\\d)\\1+|\\d+").matcher(s);
while(m.find()) {
   lst.add(m.group());
}
System.out.println(lst);