Hi

Can someone please help me to write a regular expression in Java which will split a String abc="Hello (good morning) world" into "Hello", "(good morning)", and "world".

Currently, my expression is abc.split("\\s"); which splits on the basis of spaces only. I tried abc.split("\\s[^[(\\w\\s\\w)]]"); but that didnt work. 

Thanks a lot for all the help

Gem 

 

Try

\s\B|\B\s

Michael 

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Michael

"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."
Albert Einstein

Excellent. Thanks Michael that worked perfectly. As you can tell Im not good at regular expressions (rarely have to use them) could you please tell me what this expression is actually doing? I know \B is a non-word boundary but still cant put it all together with the 'I' (pipe expression) which I think is an 'OR' condition.

 

Thanks a lot for your help

Gem 

***split on a white space followed by a non-word boundary OR on a white space preceded by a non-word boundary***

 splits on [DELIMITER]

Hello[DELIMITER](good morning)[DELIMITER]world