Java - Split String by Number and Letters

Question

So I have, for example, a string such as this C3H20IO

What I wanna do is split this string so I get the following:

Array1 = {C,H,I,O}
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Answer 1

You can use two patterns :

• [0-9]
• [a-zA-Z]

Split twice by each of them.

List letters = Arrays.asList(test.split("[0-9]"));
List numbers = Arrays.asList(test.split("[a-zA-Z]"))
            .stream()
            .filter(s -> !s.equals(""))
            .collect(Collectors.toList());

if(letters.size() != numbers.size()){
        numbers.add("1");
    }