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

Try this:

String[] stringArray = Pattern.compile("ian").split(
"This is a sample sentence"
.replaceAll("[^\\p{Alnum}]+", "") //this will remove all non alpha numeric chars
);

for (int j=0; i