Hi,

with regexps you can pretty much start here
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html#sumand
if you have more questions, investigate further (just search for
regexp
and it will return a lot of results).

Best regards,
Filip Havlicek

2010/9/28 john brown <[email protected]>

> Oops!
>
> The \\ actually did work. It just let me get further into my code
> where I discovered "other errors".
>
> I think I can work out of this problem but I would like to understand
> this subject better if anybody can shed any light in this direction.
>
> Thanks, John Brown
>
> On Sep 28, 1:54 pm, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:06 PM, john brown
> > <[email protected]>wrote:
> >
> > > What is the error in my understanding of the split() method?
> >
> > I don't have an actual answer for you, but I ran into the same issue
> where I
> > was trying to parse a server response string delimited by the pipe and it
> > failed miserably, as you've seen. The asterisk "*" was also a problem if
> I
> > recall correctly.
> >
> > I didn't investigate too thoroughly, but I think these (and probably
> others)
> > might be special characters in the split logic for regex stuff, but
> that's
> > just a guess.
> >
> > If you have control over the server, I'd say just use a different
> delimiter.
> > If you don't, you can do what I did and first replace the offending
> > character with something else you know will not exist in the string and
> > split on that. Lame, but it works.
> >
> >
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