How to split sentence to words and punctuation using split or matcher?

Question

I need to split sentence to words and punctuation marks, and place em into list, saving their sequence.

For example: "Some text here!". And result should be: List(Some, ,text, , here,!)

I'm using String.split("regex"); With "split" I can split text only by word or only by punctuation.

So what should I use, to split text by words and punctuation at same time? Thank you in advance.

digits belong to words. It's like to split words from non word characters. — Mista Jam, Mar 25 '15 at 12:40
Now I only can split string to words and add them to list. Like String[] words = sentenseToParse.split(regex); But I also need to get non word characters like !@#$ from same string (including spaces). And place em to String[] sentenseParts. It's should be like {word, space, another word, dot} — Mista Jam, Mar 25 '15 at 12:44

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 25 '15 at 12:43

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And result should be: List(Some, ,text, , here,!)

it looks like you want to split on word boundaries split("\\b").

String data = "Some text here!";
for (String s : data.split("\\b")){
    System.out.println("'"+s+"'");
}

Output:

'Some'
' '
'text'
' '
'here'
'!'

answered Mar 25 '15 at 12:43

Pshemo

yes, that's what I need. Ill try it out now. Thank you! And sorry for my stupid question) – Mista Jam Mar 25 '15 at 12:47
That kind of complicates things too much to be answered in this question. Consider [posting another question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask) in which you will describe precisely what you want to achieve. – Pshemo Mar 25 '15 at 13:02
Also try to avoid [XY problem](http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem). – Pshemo Mar 25 '15 at 13:05
Thank u. I will. I realise that I ducked up with question. – Mista Jam Mar 25 '15 at 13:15

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