Re: String parsing question.
SpreadTooThin wrote:
I need to build a string based on the contents of another string.
(This string will be used to create a directory structure, but that's
irrelevant, I think.)
String dirName = "$PatientID/$StudyID/$SeriesID/Example - $ImageUID";
I need to parse this into a different string where the $Names have
been replaced with actual data.
So it might look something like:
constructedDir = "John Smith/Brain MRI/Sagital slices/Example - Image
1";
What String methods or classes might help me do this simply?
TIA
You might do simple token replacement:
dirName = dirName.replace("$PatientID", patientId);
dirName = dirName.replace("$StudyID", studyId);
....
Or for a more sophisticated approach, look into templating engines
(FreeMarker for example)
You can also consider writing your own simplified templating engine,
which will use Pattern/Matcher, and replace values based on data from a Map.
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