Yeah, I've never played with split, and the documentation is less than helpful, but it may be that it's necessary to use ".*\t" or some such. (Regex has always made my head hurt.)
On Sep 28, 3:18 pm, Filip Havlicek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > with regexps you can pretty much start > herehttp://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/regex/Patt... > 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. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---------------------- > > > TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago > > > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices > > > -- > > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
