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How to remove unknown characters from a string which follows a particular format?

I have a String in this format: &?0907141|somename|5009-07-2014|sample
All I want to do is to remove 50 from the above String format, but the number might be anything not just 50, I cannot go by index position since the text "somename" might be changed to something else, but String will always be in the same format as above.
How do I remove it in the easiest possible way?

This will remove two characters after the second pipe.
String s = "&?0907141|somename|5009-07-2014|sample";
System.out.println(s.replaceFirst("(.*\\|.*\\|)..(.*\\|.*)", "$1$2"));

try this
String.replaceAll ("\\|[0-9]{2}", "|");
it will replace a pipe and 2 digits with a pipe

1. String[] arr= `String#split()` on `|`
2. use replace() / regex etc on arr[2].
3. Code..

String s = "&?0907141|somename|5009-07-2014|sample";
String splits[] = s.split("\\|");
s = splits[0] + "|" + splits[1] + "|" + splits[2].substring(2) + "|" + splits[3];

Java string split with Multiple Characters Delimiter

I have a very complicated output from a function, which i need to use specific word from it.
For example, my output is:
oracle 11257 1 0 14:01 ? 00:00:00 ora_pmon_sas
I need to get just "sas" word, which is next to "ora_pmon_"
Another example:
oracle 6187 1 0 13:41 ? 00:00:00 ora_pmon_db2
I need to get "db2". So what should be my expression?
JAVA code:
insArray=line.split("what will be between these quotes?");

You could just do
String sub = s.substring(s.indexOf("ora_pmon_") + 9);

How about this one?
string = string.replaceAll(".*?ora_pmon_", "");
If you want multiple words in place of ora, then it will be
string = string.replaceAll(".*?(ora|kf|asm)_pmon_", "");

You can simply use String#substring(int i) combined with String#lastIndexOf(char ch)
For example:
String result = input.substring(input.lastIndexOf('_') + 1)

How to split this string in java?

I have this code
lStock.setText(" Put " + getLoc(i));
At the moment it prints out like this on the GUI:
3I031C
what I want to show now on the screen GUI is:
3I03-1C
I tried testing the split() but I'm confused.

String.split is used to break apart a string based on some particular delimiter. You don't have a delimiter here.
If you always want to break after the fourth character:
String str = "3I031C";
String out = str.substring(0, 4) + '-' + str.substring(4);

You can't use the split method since it needs a delimiter, but you're string doesn't contain any.
You can try using substring:
str = str.substring(0, 4) + "-" + str.substring(4);
But this will only work if the string always have the same length and format.

If its a fixed output try like below
s = s.substring(0, 4) + "-" + s.substring(4);
refer to String.substring()

Need to match a string with following regex format

A String will be of format [( 1.0N)-195( 1.0E)-195(28)-769.7(NESW)-1080.8(U)-617.9(43-047-30127)]
I need a regex to match to see if the string contains -XXX-XXX (where X is a digit)
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("(?=.*?(?:-[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9]))");
if(p.matcher(a).matches())
{
System.out.println("Matched");
}
Also I've tried -[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9] and (?=.*?-[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9])
Nothing worked

A substring would be much easier, but (?:\\d{2})(-\\d{3}-\\d{5}) will match -XXX-XXXXX as the 1 group.
I'm assuming the 3 digits in the last number was a mistake. If not just change the 5 to a 3.

If you want to check if the string contains -3digits-3digits
String a = "43-037-30149";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile(".*(-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{3})");
if(p.matcher(a).matches())
{
System.out.println("Matched");
}

why don't you use substring??
String b = a.substring(2,9);
or this one:
String c = a.substring(a.indexOf('-'), a.indexOf('-') + 8);
making "only" a substring would also be much more efficient! ;)

Use String.split() with multiple delimiters

I need to split a string base on delimiter - and .. Below are my desired output.
AA.BB-CC-DD.zip ->
AA
BB
CC
DD
zip
but my following code does not work.
private void getId(String pdfName){
String[]tokens = pdfName.split("-\\.");
}

I think you need to include the regex OR operator:
String[]tokens = pdfName.split("-|\\.");
What you have will match:
[DASH followed by DOT together] -.
not
[DASH or DOT any of them] - or .

Try this regex "[-.]+". The + after treats consecutive delimiter chars as one. Remove plus if you do not want this.

You can use the regex "\W".This matches any non-word character.The required line would be:
String[] tokens=pdfName.split("\\W");

The string you give split is the string form of a regular expression, so:
private void getId(String pdfName){
String[]tokens = pdfName.split("[\\-.]");
}
That means to split on any character in the [] (we have to escape - with a backslash because it's special inside []; and of course we have to escape the backslash because this is a string). (Conversely, . is normally special but isn't special inside [].)

Using Guava you could do this:
Iterable<String> tokens = Splitter.on(CharMatcher.anyOf("-.")).split(pdfName);

For two char sequence as delimeters "AND" and "OR" this should be worked. Don't forget to trim while using.
String text ="ISTANBUL AND NEW YORK AND PARIS OR TOKYO AND MOSCOW";
String[] cities = text.split("AND|OR");
Result : cities = {"ISTANBUL ", " NEW YORK ", " PARIS ", " TOKYO ", " MOSCOW"}

pdfName.split("[.-]+");
[.-] -> any one of the . or - can be used as delimiter
+ sign signifies that if the aforementioned delimiters occur consecutively we should treat it as one.

I'd use Apache Commons:
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
private void getId(String pdfName){
String[] tokens = StringUtils.split(pdfName, "-.");
}
It'll split on any of the specified separators, as opposed to StringUtils.splitByWholeSeparator(str, separator) which uses the complete string as a separator

String[] token=s.split("[.-]");

It's better to use something like this:
s.split("[\\s\\-\\.\\'\\?\\,\\_\\#]+");
Have added a few other characters as sample. This is the safest way to use, because the way . and ' is treated.

Try this code:
var string = 'AA.BB-CC-DD.zip';
array = string.split(/[,.]/);

You may also specified regular expression as argument in split() method ..see below example....
private void getId(String pdfName){
String[]tokens = pdfName.split("-|\\.");
}

s.trim().split("[\\W]+")
should work.

you can try this way as split accepts varargs so we can pass multiple parameters as delimeters
String[]tokens = pdfName.split("-",".");
you can pass as many parameters that you want.

If you know the sting will always be in the same format, first split the string based on . and store the string at the first index in a variable. Then split the string in the second index based on - and store indexes 0, 1 and 2. Finally, split index 2 of the previous array based on . and you should have obtained all of the relevant fields.
Refer to the following snippet:
String[] tmp = pdfName.split(".");
String val1 = tmp[0];
tmp = tmp[1].split("-");
String val2 = tmp[0];
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