#2 split method that returns a String array

[Marco Hunsicker]

Hi,

I'm currently evaluating your package and I am quite
satisfied so far. What you be nice (for me, at least)
to have in a future version would be a Pattern.split()
method that returns a String array of the found matches
instead of the Pattern.tokenizer() that returns a
RETokenizer instance.

Cheers,
Marco

[Sergey A. Samokhodkin]

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It's not clear from the message, what should such metod return:
an array of matches or an array of splitted chunks?

Do you know of this way:
String[] chunks=pattern.tokenizer(string).split();

I'm also going to add similar method to MatchIterator, so it
may be used like following:

String[] matches=myPattern.matcher(string).findAll().values
(0);

where the 0 is the group number (in this case the whole match).

Or did you mean something different?

[Marco Hunsicker]

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>Do you know of this way:
>String[] chunks=pattern.tokenizer(string).split();

Ah, I missed that one. It is not documented, BTW.

It would be cool if you could support both: array of matches
*and* array of splitted chunks! (just like Perl does)

For the string "de.hunsicker.util"

[.] returns chunks, i.e. { de, hunsicker, util }

([.]) returns matches, i.e. {de, ., hunsicker, ., util }

Thanks.