Error using split() with curly braces "{"
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Solution 1
{
is used to represent intervals in regular expression, you need to escape it, since String.split
does use regular expressions.
Use str_bj.split("\\{");
or str_bj.split("[{]");
Solution 2
Try this.Sample.
String str = "YourString{YourString{YourString";
String[] temp;
String delimiter = "\\{";
SepString= str.split(delimiter);
/* print test */
for(int i =0; i < SepString.length ; i++)
System.out.println(SepString[i]);
Comments
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Nikunj Patel almost 2 years
There is an issue using
split()
with curly bracesString[] values = str_bj.split("{");
i need to split string with
{
but it throws an error at runtime .......Error::
05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.obj/com.obj.ObjectDemoActivity}: java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Syntax error U_REGEX_BAD_INTERVAL near index 2: 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): /{ 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): ^ 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2663) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2679) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:125) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2033) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): Caused by: java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Syntax error U_REGEX_BAD_INTERVAL near index 2: 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): /{ 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): ^ 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at com.ibm.icu4jni.regex.NativeRegEx.open(Native Method) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at java.util.regex.Pattern.compileImpl(Pattern.java:383) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>(Pattern.java:341) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:358) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at java.lang.String.split(String.java:2044) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at com.obj.ObjectDemoActivity.onCreate(ObjectDemoActivity.java:21) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2627) 05-23 16:01:30.232: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6802): ... 11 more
It seems to work OK with other characters, but not
{