StringTokenizer in java

The StringTokenizer class provides the first step in this parsing process, often called the lexer (lexical analyzer) or scanner. StringTokenizer implements the Enumeration interface. Therefore, given an input string, you can enumerate the individual tokens contained in it using StringTokenizer

To use StringTokenizer, you specify an input string and a string that contains delimiters. Delimiters are characters that separate tokens. Each character in the delimiters string is considered a valid delimiter—for example, “,;:” sets the delimiters to a comma, semicolon, and colon. The default set of delimiters consists of the whitespace characters: space, tab, newline, and carriage return

The StringTokenizer constructors are shown here:

StringTokenizer(String str)

StringTokenizer(String str, String delimiters)

StringTokenizer(String str, String delimiters, boolean delimAsToken)

In all versions, str is the string that will be tokenized. In the first version, the default delimiters are used. In the second and third versions, delimiters is a string that specifies the delimiters. In the third version, if delimAsToken is true, then the delimiters are also returned as tokens when the string is parsed. Otherwise, the delimiters are not returned. Delimiters are not returned as tokens by the first two forms.

Once you have created a StringTokenizer object, the nextToken( ) method is used to extract consecutive tokens. The hasMoreTokens( ) method returns true while there are more tokens to be extracted. Since StringTokenizer implements Enumeration, the hasMoreElements( ) and nextElement( ) methods are also implemented, and they act the same as hasMoreTokens( ) and nextToken( ), respectively

Demonstrate StringTokenizer

import java.util.StringTokenizer;

class STDemo {

static String in = "title=Java: The Complete Reference;" + "author=Schildt;" + "publisher=Osborne/McGraw-Hill;" + "copyright=2007";

public static void main(String args[]) { StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(in, "=;");

while(st.hasMoreTokens()) { String key = st.nextToken(); String val = st.nextToken(); System.out.println(key + "\t" + val);

}

}

}

The output from this program is shown here:

title
Java: The Complete Reference
author
Schildt
publisher
Osborne/McGraw-Hill
copyright
2007