Regex expression help! (java)

Scruff

Argh. i do hate regex. have needed to do it in ages.
Have a string that contains numbers, letters and other characters like . and /.
e.g.

string1 = "26158 25580 12.0  2.0 /bin/sh ./start.sh"

That i want to split up into an array. The criteria for the split is 1 or more space chatacters so i should have an array like
["26158","22580","12.0","2.0","/bin/sh","./start.sh"]

anyone know what the regex is for a match basec on one or more characters?
tried

Array temp[] = string1.split("^[  ]+");

but that doesnt work..

EL_Toneh

Try \s+ as your regex. \s being a whitespace char and the + meaning one or more times.
so

String x= "26158 25580 12.0  2.0 /bin/sh ./start.sh";
String[] temp = x.split("\\s+");

will get you an array with:
26158
25580
12.0
2.0
/bin/sh
./start.sh

good guide can be found here:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html#sum

hope this helps. :v:

robfitz

Scruff wrote:

"^[ ]+"

^ is for matching the beginning of a line

Scruff

Cheers EL_Toneh, that works.