Java: Splitting a string by whitespace when there is a variable number of whitespaces between words?

Question

I have the following:

String string = \"1-50  of 500+\";
String[] stringArray = string.split(\" \");

Printing out all the elements in this

Answer 1

Use \\s+ to split on spaces even if they are more.

String string = "1-50  of 500+";
String[] stringArray = string.split("\\s+");

for (String str : stringArray)
{
    System.out.println(str);
}

Full example: http://ideone.com/CFVr6N

EDIT:

If you also want to split on tabs, change the regex to \\s+|\\t+ and it detects both spaces and tabs as well.