Converting a sentence string to a string array of words in Java

Question

I need my Java program to take a string like:

\"This is a sample sentence.\"

and turn it into a string array like:

{\"this\         


        

Answer 1

Now, this can be accomplished just with split as it takes regex:

String s = "This is a sample sentence with []s.";
String[] words = s.split("\\W+");

this will give words as: {"this","is","a","sample","sentence", "s"}

The \\W+ will match all non-alphabetic characters occurring one or more times. So there is no need to replace. You can check other patterns also.