使用多个唯一的分隔符分割字符串

Question

I have string in this format

x/1.25 o/33.3 description for item A`

Now, I want to split it so it becomes

1.25, 33.3, description for item A

So far, I used .split(x/|o/) which works for this case. However, it becomes invalid if the user put x/ or o/ in the description of item A , like description o/ item A .

Is there any better regex that utilize the order of the parameter and delimiter in above string format? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

One possible way is to do

String[] fields = input.split("\\s+",3);

which will split into 3 blank-delimited fields. Then apply your regex to only the first two and reassemble the result into the output.