I need my Java program to take a string like:
"This is a sample sentence."
and turn it into a string array like:
{"this","is","a","sample","sentence"}
No periods, or punctuation (preferably). By the way, the string input is always one sentence.
Is there an easy way to do this that I'm not seeing? Or do we really have to search for spaces a lot and create new strings from the areas between the spaces (which are words)?
String.split() will do most of what you want. You may then need to loop over the words to pull out any punctuation.
For example:
String s = "This is a sample sentence.";
String[] words = s.split("\\s+");
for (int i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
// You may want to check for a non-word character before blindly
// performing a replacement
// It may also be necessary to adjust the character class
words[i] = words[i].replaceAll("[^\\w]", "");
}
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.
You can use BreakIterator.getWordInstance to find all words in a string.
public static List<String> getWords(String text) {
List<String> words = new ArrayList<String>();
BreakIterator breakIterator = BreakIterator.getWordInstance();
breakIterator.setText(text);
int lastIndex = breakIterator.first();
while (BreakIterator.DONE != lastIndex) {
int firstIndex = lastIndex;
lastIndex = breakIterator.next();
if (lastIndex != BreakIterator.DONE && Character.isLetterOrDigit(text.charAt(firstIndex))) {
words.add(text.substring(firstIndex, lastIndex));
}
}
return words;
}
Test:
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(getWords("A PT CR M0RT BOUSG SABN NTE TR/GB/(G) = RAND(MIN(XXX, YY + ABC))"));
}
Ouput:
[A, PT, CR, M0RT, BOUSG, SABN, NTE, TR, GB, G, RAND, MIN, XXX, YY, ABC]
You can also use BreakIterator.getWordInstance.
You can just split your string like that using this regular expression
String l = "sofia, malgré tout aimait : la laitue et le choux !" <br/>
l.split("[[ ]*|[,]*|[\\.]*|[:]*|[/]*|[!]*|[?]*|[+]*]+");
The easiest and best answer I can think of is to use the following method defined on the java string -
String[] split(String regex)
And just do "This is a sample sentence".split(" "). Because it takes a regex, you can do more complicated splits as well, which can include removing unwanted punctuation and other such characters.
Try using the following:
String str = "This is a simple sentence";
String[] strgs = str.split(" ");
That will create a substring at each index of the array of strings using the space as a split point.
Use string.replace(".", "").replace(",", "").replace("?", "").replace("!","").split(' ') to split your code into an array with no periods, commas, question marks, or exclamation marks. You can add/remove as many replace calls as you want.
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<stringArray .length; j++) {
System.out.println(i + " \"" + stringArray [j] + "\"");
}
Following is a code snippet which splits a sentense to word and give its count too.
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
public class StringToword {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String s="a a a A A";
String[] splitedString=s.split(" ");
Map m=new HashMap();
int count=1;
for(String s1 :splitedString){
count=m.containsKey(s1)?count+1:1;
m.put(s1, count);
}
Iterator<StringToword> itr=m.entrySet().iterator();
while(itr.hasNext()){
System.out.println(itr.next());
}
}
}
string.replaceAll() doesn't correctly work with locale different from predefined. At least in jdk7u10.
This example creates a word dictionary from textfile with windows cyrillic charset CP1251
public static void main (String[] args) {
String fileName = "Tolstoy_VoinaMir.txt";
try {
List<String> lines = Files.readAllLines(Paths.get(fileName),
Charset.forName("CP1251"));
Set<String> words = new TreeSet<>();
for (String s: lines ) {
for (String w : s.split("\\s+")) {
w = w.replaceAll("\\p{Punct}","");
words.add(w);
}
}
for (String w: words) {
System.out.println(w);
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
I already did post this answer somewhere, i will do it here again. This version doesn't use any major inbuilt method. You got the char array, convert it into a String. Hope it helps!
import java.util.Scanner;
public class SentenceToWord
{
public static int getNumberOfWords(String sentence)
{
int counter=0;
for(int i=0;i<sentence.length();i++)
{
if(sentence.charAt(i)==' ')
counter++;
}
return counter+1;
}
public static char[] getSubString(String sentence,int start,int end) //method to give substring, replacement of String.substring()
{
int counter=0;
char charArrayToReturn[]=new char[end-start];
for(int i=start;i<end;i++)
{
charArrayToReturn[counter++]=sentence.charAt(i);
}
return charArrayToReturn;
}
public static char[][] getWordsFromString(String sentence)
{
int wordsCounter=0;
int spaceIndex=0;
int length=sentence.length();
char wordsArray[][]=new char[getNumberOfWords(sentence)][];
for(int i=0;i<length;i++)
{
if(sentence.charAt(i)==' ' || i+1==length)
{
wordsArray[wordsCounter++]=getSubString(sentence, spaceIndex,i+1); //get each word as substring
spaceIndex=i+1; //increment space index
}
}
return wordsArray; //return the 2 dimensional char array
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println("Please enter the String");
Scanner input=new Scanner(System.in);
String userInput=input.nextLine().trim();
int numOfWords=getNumberOfWords(userInput);
char words[][]=new char[numOfWords+1][];
words=getWordsFromString(userInput);
System.out.println("Total number of words found in the String is "+(numOfWords));
for(int i=0;i<numOfWords;i++)
{
System.out.println(" ");
for(int j=0;j<words[i].length;j++)
{
System.out.print(words[i][j]);//print out each char one by one
}
}
}
}
Another way to do that is StringTokenizer. ex:-
public static void main(String[] args) {
String str = "This is a sample string";
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(str," ");
String starr[]=new String[st.countTokens()];
while (st.hasMoreElements()) {
starr[i++]=st.nextElement();
}
}
You can use simple following code
String str= "This is a sample sentence.";
String[] words = str.split("[[ ]*|[//.]]");
for(int i=0;i<words.length;i++)
System.out.print(words[i]+" ");
Most of the answers here convert String to String Array as the question asked. But Generally we use List , so more useful will be -
String dummy = "This is a sample sentence.";
List<String> wordList= Arrays.asList(dummy.split(" "));
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4674850/converting-a-sentence-string-to-a-string-array-of-words-in-java