You might want to try using \u0009 instead of \t for the tab character. And, of course, make sure your source really contains tab characters and some process hasn't expanded them to blanks.
On Sep 28, 12:06 pm, john brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > My understanding of String.split() and "\t" and "\n" seems to be > incomplete. (I come from a DOS, Win, and VB enviornment.) I am in the > habit of using Tab delimited 'records' in a text file where the > records are delimited by CRLF. VB uses constants like vbTab and vbCrLf > to refer to tabs and line feeds. And the Linux, Android enviornment > utilizes \t and \n for the same things. > > The following code yields (I think) different responses depending on > the source of strResponse. If strResponse originates in my Android > Java code (as a paramater constructed in the code), the following code > works just fine. But if strResponse is parsed from html document > created by me using PHP on the server, then the two Log.d's produce > exactly the same thing, the record which contains several "\t". > > // Start Code ***************** > String strRecords[] = strResponse.split("\n"); > String strFields[]; > Integer i; > for (i = 0; i < strRecords.length; i++){ > strFields = strRecords[i].split("\t"); > Log.d("NQ109", TAG + " in addTaps strRecords[i] = " + strRecords[i]); > Log.d("NQ109", TAG + " in addTaps strFields[0] = " + strFields[0]);} > > // End Code ***************** > > I also tried to utilize "|", the pipe symbol, chr(124), but that just > seems to split the record into an array of individual characters. > > What is the error in my understanding of the split() method? > > http://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/String.html#split(ja...) > does not seem to go deep enough for me to figure it out. > > Thanks, John Brown -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
