How to parse this string in Java?

Question

prefix/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/..

How to parse the dir1, dir2 values out of the above string in Java?

The prefix here can be:

/usr/local/apache2/resumes

Answer 1

If you want to split the String at the / character, the String.split method will work:

For example:

String s = "prefix/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4";
String[] tokens = s.split("/");

for (String t : tokens)
  System.out.println(t);

Output

prefix
dir1
dir2
dir3
dir4

Edit

Case with a / in the prefix, and we know what the prefix is:

String s = "slash/prefix/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4";

String prefix = "slash/prefix/";
String noPrefixStr = s.substring(s.indexOf(prefix) + prefix.length());

String[] tokens = noPrefixStr.split("/");

for (String t : tokens)
  System.out.println(t);

The substring without the prefix "slash/prefix/" is made by the substring method. That String is then run through split .

Output:

dir1
dir2
dir3
dir4

Edit again

If this String is actually dealing with file paths, using the File class is probably more preferable than using string manipulations. Classes like File which already take into account all the intricacies of dealing with file paths is going to be more robust.

Answer 2

在这种情况下，为什么不使用new File("prefix/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4")并从那里开始？

Answer 3

...
String str = "bla!/bla/bla/"

String parts[] = str.split("/");

//To get fist "bla!"
String dir1 = parts[0];

Answer 4

 String result;
 String str = "/usr/local/apache2/resumes/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4";
 String regex ="(dir)+[\\d]";
 Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile( regex ).matcher( str);
  while (matcher.find( ))
  {
  result = matcher.group();     
  System.out.println(result);                 
}

output-- dir1 dir2 dir3 dir4

Answer 5

Using String.split method will surely work as told in other answers here.

Also, StringTokenizer class can be used to to parse the String using / as the delimiter.

import java.util.StringTokenizer;
public class Test
{
    public static void main(String []args)
    {
        String s = "prefix/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/..";
        StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(s, "/");
        String dir1 = tokenizer.nextToken();
        String dir2 = tokenizer.nextToken();
        System.out.println("Dir 1  : "+dir1);
        System.out.println("Dir 2 : " + dir2);
    }
}

Gives the output as :

Dir 1  : prefix
Dir 2 : dir1

Here you can find more about StringTokenizer .

Answer 6

String str = "/usr/local/apache/resumes/dir1/dir2";
String prefix = "/usr/local/apache/resumes/";

if( str.startsWith(prefix) ) {
  str = str.substring(0, prefix.length);
  String parts[] = str.split("/");
  // dir1=parts[0];
  // dir2=parts[1];
} else {
  // It doesn't start with your prefix
}

Answer 7

public class Test {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
    String s = "pre/fix/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/..";
    String prefix = "pre/fix";
    String[] tokens = s.substring(prefix.length()).split("/");
    for (int i=0; i<tokens.length; i++) {
        System.out.println(tokens[i]);
    }
    }

}

Answer 8

If it's a File, you can get the parts by creating an instanceof File and then ask for its segments.

This is good because it'll work regardless of the direction of the slashes; it's platform independent (except for the "drive letters" in windows...)

Answer 9

String.split(String regex) is convenient but if you don't need the regular expression handling then go with the substring(..) example, java.util.StringTokenizer or use Apache commons lang 1 . The performance difference when not using regular expressions can be a gain of 1 to 2 orders of magnitude in speed.

Answer 10

String s = "prefix/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4"

String parts[] = s.split("/");

System.out.println(s[0]); // "prefix"
System.out.println(s[1]); // "dir1"
...