Splitting a String into tokens

Question

I would like to split a String into tokens that are stored in an array. However i don not think I am able to use delimiters as the strings information is not separated by a specific set of characters. The information is however always separated by varying amounts of white space.

Like this:

0      147    530.936        1    656.336   -1.12709    656.336   -0.52921 -0.0131993  -0.882138        0       20        0        0   0.878423          0 1.4013E-045          0    

My question is, is there a way to use the varying amounts of white space as delimiters, in order to tokenize the string?

Solution

How about

String[] tokens = yourString.split("\\s+");

Split uses regex and in regex

• to represent any whitespace you can use "\\s"
• to say "one or more times" use +