Problem with split function

Hello

I am using split function for the following data:

[a1,a2,,a3,a4,,a5,,]

Using this data I would like to end up with an array of 9 strings, meaning

array[0]=a1
array[1]=a2
array[2]= {just empty or null}
array[3]=a3
array[4]=a4
array[5]= {just empty or null}
array[6] = a5
array[7]={just empty or null}
array[8]={just empty or null}

The split function handles the seperators correctly if they are empty and in the middle of the string (array[2] and array[5]) but not array[7] or array[8].

Can you please help me solve this?

Many Thanks:confused:

As per the String API, the split method can take a second parameter, an int that will tell the method how many times to perform the split. If it is negative, the pattern will be applied as many times as possible. Thus you want your split to be something like:
myString.split(",", -1); For instance:

Code:

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public class Fu2
{
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    String input = "a1,a2,,a3,a4,,a5,,";
    String[] tokens = input.split(",", -1);
    for (int i = 0; i < tokens.length; i++)
    {
      System.out.println("token " + i + ": " + tokens[i]);
    }
  }
}

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What you have tried so far? You want to split the string based on the comma sign, is it?

Thank you so much for your reply. You helped me solve my problem. :)

Cool. Glad it helped, and many thanks for the feedback!