what is the Java equivalent of sscanf for parsing values from a string using a known pattern?

Question

So I come from a C background (originally originally, though I haven\'t used that language for almost 5 years) and I\'m trying to parse some values from a string in Java. In

Answer 1

This is far from as elegant solution as one would get with using regex, but ought to work.

public static void stringStuffThing(){
String x = "17-MAR-11 15.52.25.000000000";
String y[] = x.split(" ");

for(String s : y){
    System.out.println(s);
}
String date[] = y[0].split("-");
String values[] = y[1].split("\\.");

for(String s : date){
    System.out.println(s);
}
for(String s : values){
    System.out.println(s);
}