字符串在第二个空格字符后拆分

Question

I have a string that I download from JSOUP that looks like

Paul Millsap Al Horford Tiago Splitter Jeff Teague Kyle Korver Thabo Sefolosha Mike Scott Shelvin Mack Kent Bazemore Dennis Schröder Tim Hardaway Jr. Walter Tavares Justin Holiday Mike Muscala Lamar Patterson Terran Petteway

I want to split it into an array for use in a list view, so the desired output would be:

Paul Millsap, Al Horford, Tiago Splitter, Jeff Teague, Kyle Korver, Thabo Sefolosha, Mike Scott, Shelvin Mack, Kent Bazemore, Dennis Schröder, Tim Hardaway Jr., Walter Tavares, Justin Holiday, Mike Muscala, Lamar Patterson, Terran Petteway,

How can I do this? Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

You could do a basic "split every second space", then examine the next string to see if it has anything (like a period) that would indicate that it belongs to the previous string. Works if things like Jr. have the period, wouldn't work if the punctuation isn't present

Answer 2

Preferred answer:

Since you are parsing page which have nice table and you want to get values from specific columns (names of players which are also links) you can do it easily with:

String url = "http://www.spotrac.com/nba/atlanta-hawks/cap/";
Document doc = Jsoup.connect(url).get();
Elements players = doc.select("table.datatable td.player a");
for (Element player : players){
    System.out.println(player.text());
}

which will:

• find table tag with class datatable then inside
• then from that table we select td.player which represents each cell td element with class player
• finally we want to pick these cells which have links a (since names are links)

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Original answer:

Based only on example data from your question, you could try to find OneWord[space]SecondWord(optional:[space]Jr.) .

Code based on this idea could look like:

String input = " Paul Millsap Al Horford Tiago Splitter Jeff Teague Kyle Korver Thabo Sefolosha Mike Scott Shelvin Mack Kent Bazemore Dennis Schröder Tim Hardaway Jr. Walter Tavares Justin Holiday Mike Muscala Lamar Patterson Terran Petteway";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\w+\\s+\\w+(\\s+Jr[.])?",
        Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE | Pattern.UNICODE_CHARACTER_CLASS);
Matcher m = p.matcher(input);
while (m.find()) {
    System.out.println(m.group());
}

Output:

Paul Millsap
Al Horford
Tiago Splitter
Jeff Teague
Kyle Korver
Thabo Sefolosha
Mike Scott
Shelvin Mack
Kent Bazemore
Dennis Schröder
Tim Hardaway Jr.
Walter Tavares
Justin Holiday
Mike Muscala
Lamar Patterson
Terran Petteway

Answer 3

Search for two words, and then search for any third word only if it ends in a . character:

\b(\w+ \w+\b(?: \w+\.)?)

Replace with \\1, . regex101.com example