Splitting string by multiple delimiters

Question

I have a string of names. I am looking to split it based on names between double quotes. I used the following code to split the names.

String []splitterString=str.split("\"");

for (String s : splitterString) {
    System.out.println(s);
}

I get the output as:

[
Hossain, Ziaul
,
Sathiaseelan, Arjuna
,
Secchi, Raffaello
,
Fairhurst, Gorry
]

I need to store just the names from these. I am not sure how to do that.

This is the string: ["Hossain, Ziaul","Sathiaseelan, Arjuna","Secchi, Raffaello","Fairhurst, Gorry"]

Thanks for the help!!!

they are stored in `splitterString` - what is your question? — Scary Wombat, Nov 08 '16 at 02:30
Is your input string ["Hossain, Ziaul","Sathiaseelan, Arjuna","Secchi, Raffaello","Fairhurst, Gorry"] or it doesn't include square brackets ? — Mangu Singh Rajpurohit, Nov 08 '16 at 02:31
what is the desired output? "looking to split it based on names" is a bit confusing — Netham, Nov 08 '16 at 02:32
@ScaryWombat yes they are stored in splitterString. But I need to extract just the names 1. Hossain, Ziaul 2. Sathiaseelan, Arjuna 3. and so on and not the '[' and ',' — Josephine, Nov 08 '16 at 02:36

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 08 '16 at 02:50

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I think following solution may help you out :-

String str = "[\"Hossain, Ziaul\",\"Sathiaseelan, Arjuna\",\"Secchi, Raffaello\",\"Fairhurst, Gorry\"]";


String [] str1 = str.split("\\[\"|\",\"|\"\\]");
for (int iCount = 0; iCount < str1.length; iCount++)
{
   System.out.println(str1[iCount]);
}

answered Nov 08 '16 at 02:50

Mangu Singh Rajpurohit

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Thanks this works! – Josephine Nov 08 '16 at 03:02

Splitting string by multiple delimiters

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