How to prevent the String Tokenizer filter more than one character

Question

I am wrinting a simple program to cut the long string into small piece of data with the delimiters "#####" by using StringTokenizer
For example:
String output ="Apple Company #####APPLECOMPANY48877 #####2005-01-01 #####TESTING1 ##### ##### ##### ##### #####MR.Apple Wong #####[email protected] #####0-852-34183741 #####0-852- #####XYZ #####Apple in the tree road #####ROOM 3T099, LEVEL 9, All WIN BLDC ##### ##### #####NT #####34KJFG45 |||||0.0000 |||||1 |||||3 |||||3";
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(output,"#####");
int i=0;
while(st.hasMoreTokens()){
System.out.println("The number is: " i" "+st.nextToken());
i++;
The result is
The number is: 0 Apple Company
The number is: 1 APPLECOMPANY48877
The number is: 2 2005-01-01
The number is: 3 TESTING1
The number is: 4
The number is: 5
The number is: 6
The number is: 7
The number is: 8 MR.Apple Wong
The number is: 9 [email protected]
The number is: 10 0-852-34183741
The number is: 11 0-852-
The number is: 12 XYZ
The number is: 13 Apple in the tree road
The number is: 14 ROOM 3T099, LEVEL 9, All WIN BLDC
The number is: 15
The number is: 16
The number is: 17 NT
The number is: 18 34KJFG45 |||||0.0000 |||||1 |||||3 |||||3----->
It is correct!!!!!!
But, if the one of the small string in the long string contain the character "#", I found the "#####" and "#" also trace as delimiters by StringTokenizers to filter the String such as following example:
I only add one more "#" in String "ROOM 3T099, LEVEL 9," from the above example:
String output ="Apple Company #####APPLECOMPANY48877 #####2005-01-01 #####TESTING1 ##### ##### ##### ##### #####MR.Apple Wong #####[email protected] #####0-852-34183741 #####0-852- #####XYZ #####Apple in the tree road #####ROOM #3T099, LEVEL 9, All WIN BLDC ##### ##### #####NT #####34KJFG45 |||||0.0000 |||||1 |||||3 |||||3";
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(output,"#####");
int i=0;
while(st.hasMoreTokens()){
System.out.println("The number is: " i" "+st.nextToken());
i++;
But the result is:
The number is: 0 Apple Company
The number is: 1 APPLECOMPANY48877
The number is: 2 2005-01-01
The number is: 3 TESTING1
The number is: 4
The number is: 5
The number is: 6
The number is: 7
The number is: 8 MR.Apple Wong
The number is: 9 [email protected]
The number is: 10 0-852-34183741
The number is: 11 0-852-
The number is: 12 XYZ
The number is: 13 Apple in the tree road
The number is: 14 ROOM
The number is: 15 3T099, LEVEL 9, All WIN BLDC
The number is: 16
The number is: 17
The number is: 18 NT
The number is: 19 34KJFG45 |||||0.0000 |||||1 |||||3 |||||3
I have found that the StringTokenizer trace "#####" and "#" to be delimiters to filter the String, I only want to filter the String by StringTokenizer with "#####" not include "#"
So What Can I Do? Is it
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(output,"#####");
not Correct?
It is thank a lot if anyone can help me! thx!!

Answer 1

If I must use StringTokenizer, How can I do it? You completely misunderstand how StringTokenizer works.
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(output,"#####");Each character is used as a delimiter. So you have specified the same delimiter 5 times.
As suggested above you would need to rewrite the entire code, to treat the String as a delimiter, intead of each character as a delimiter.