How to use the split method with a non-constant delimiter

Good day,

I'm trying to read a text file by extracting specific data that are in one line and excluding others on the same line. The data I want to extract are separated by the 'space' delimiter but unfortunately this delimiter was not used uniformly for the entire line, I mean that sometimes data in a line will be separated by a single space for some and sometimes two to three spaces for others.

How do I change the delimiter for the split method I'm using please so that no matters the space between the data it extracts the correct ones?

Thanks

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Originally Posted by Unnel

I'm trying to read a text file by extracting specific data that are in one line and excluding others on the same line. The data I want to extract are separated by the 'space' delimiter but unfortunately this delimiter was not used uniformly for the entire line, I mean that sometimes data in a line will be separated by a single space for some and sometimes two to three spaces for others.

How do I change the delimiter for the split method I'm using please so that no matters the space between the data it extracts the correct ones?

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Can you use the expression "\\s+" (i.e. one or more spaces)?

kind regards,

Jos

you can use use "<space><space>*", if you really want space and left others like tabs alone. Otherwise, if you want tabs (and other whitespaces) to be counted as spaces, use "\\s+"

Thanks, it helped a lot...I got it to work..

Many thanks :)