Split each string from a paragraph

Question

I am trying to split each string from a paragraph, which has proper grammar based punctuation delimiters like ,.!? or more if any.

I am trying to achieve this using Java. Here is my code.

private void printWords(String inputString) {
        String[] x = inputString.split("[.!,\\s]");
        for(String temp: x){
            System.out.println(temp);
        }

    }

Sample input String:

He is srk. Oh! I am a very good friend of srk.

My output:

He
is
srk

Oh

I
am
a
very
good
friend
of
srk

There is a problem here, It is having spaces as shown in the output. What should be my regular expression to split strings in any given paragraph, without spaces in the output.

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered May 18 '13 at 06:24

4

You need to add a + to make your expression match one or more characters:

String[] x = inputString.split("[.!,\\s]+");

answered May 18 '13 at 06:24

Keppil

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Paul Vargas · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-18T07:22:08.197

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What about:

String[] x = inputString.split("\\W+");

edited May 18 '13 at 07:22

answered May 18 '13 at 06:33

Paul Vargas

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`[^\\w]` can be written `\\W` – Keppil May 18 '13 at 07:19
I knew I had forgotten something. Thanks. – Paul Vargas May 18 '13 at 07:23

Split each string from a paragraph

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