copying a string into array of string

[star2000]

Hello,
I want to copy a string into array of strings. I used system.copyarray(...),but it only works for the same type of array. Now i have a string containing a lot of words and i want to assigne each word to an elemnt of the stringarray.

for example: i have the string " i am lucky but i am not";

String[] words = new words[1000];

String str ;

the question is how can i copy each wod in the string into the array.

the outpu should be :

words[0] = I
words[1] = am
words[2] =lucky
........

help..........please

[ArchAngel]

Use a StringTokenizer to move through each word, putting it into the array.

[star2000]

Could you please show us how to use the string tokenizer in an example. i have tried many times but
it tdid not work propely .

[ArchAngel]

There's an example on the API:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/ap...Tokenizer.html

To change the delmitor, use the constructor:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/ap...tringTokenizer(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String)

If you still have problems, post your code and the error messages you're getting.

[bugvice]

Hi! I'm new to this forum but I saw your question and I felt I had something to add.

Using Java SDK from version 1.4 you can use the java.lang.String.split() method.
This method offers a very convinient solution to your problem, taking a regular expression String as parameter and returning an array of Strings.

In your case you wold have to write:

String[] words = str.split(" ");

and it will do the same as the StringTokenizer but with only one line of code.

Happy if this helped you in any way.
bugvice

[ArchAngel]

Good point - I forgot about that - I've only got 1.3 at work

[star2000]

thanks a lot