使用多个定界符分割不起作用

Question

For some reason my multi delimiter split is not working. Hope it just a syntax error.

This works, but I want to also split if it finds end date

String dateList[] = test.split("(?="+StartDate+")"); 

But this does not. Am I missing something?

String dateList[] = text.split("[(?="+StartDate+")(?="+EndDate+")]");

Answer 1

You cannot use "lookarounds" in a custom character class - they'd be just interpreted as characters of the class (and may not even compile the pattern properly if a malformed range is detected, eg with dangling - characters).

Use the | operator to alternate between StartDate and EndDate .

Something like:

String dateList[] = text.split("(?="+StartDate+"|"+EndDate+")");

Notes

• You also may want to invoke Pattern.quote on your start and end date values, in case they contain reserved characters.
• Java variable naming convention is camelBack , not CamelCase