Divide/split a string on quotation marks

Question

I have the following string:

I would "surely" like to "go to school".

Now, I would like to split this string at the ellipses, that is i would like to get the following output:

1. I would

2. surely

3. like to

4. go to school

5. .

Solution

I case you meant quotation mark (") instead of ellipsis, the easiest solution is to use String.split:

String text = "I would \"surely\" like to \"go to school\".";
String[] result = text.split("\"");