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Java Java Data Structures Organizing Data Splitting Strings

Posted by Fabio Leal
Fabio Leal
2,520 Points

IDK

How to do this?

1 Answer

Michael Hess
Michael Hess
24,512 Points
Michael Hess
Michael Hess
24,512 Points

Hi Fabio,

I think Rob may have answered this one already but to reiterate:

public String[] getWords() {
   return mBody.split("\\s+"); 
}

Create a getWords method of type String array.

public String[] getWords(){

}

Then create a return statement within the method body. Return the body member variable with the regex inside of the split method. The regular expression should be \s+ -- including the escape character (a backslash is the escape character \ ). So we now have this: \\s+

The end result is:

public String[] getWords() {
   return mBody.split("\\s+"); 
}

Hope this helps :)

Jerry Kong
Jerry Kong
5,672 Points
Jerry Kong
Jerry Kong
5,672 Points

The escape character part confused me. Why "\s+" instead of "\s+"?