Multiple character delimiter

Question

hi - i am attempting to parse values out of a text file using stringTokenizer. The values are delimited by a "<br>" tag. When I pass this to the stringTokenizer, I get some weird results making me think that it will only accept a single character as the delimiter: Example:
This is the text of a file that would be parsed
partText=<b>Transynd LLC.</b><br>Ken Lewis<br>303.641.5542<br>[email protected]<br>www.transynd.com
After extracting this text from the file, it is set to the var 'news'. stringTokenizer is then applied as such:
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(news, "<br>");
while (st.hasMoreTokens())
     out.write(st.nextToken() " ");
The expected resulting html is:
patText=Tansynd LLC Ken Lewis 303.641.5542 [email protected] www.tansynd.com
but in reality, i am getting:
patText=Tansynd LLC./ Ken Lewis 303.641.5542 [email protected] www.tansynd.com
notice that it removed most of the opening and closing bold tags - no idea why. and left the '/' from the closing bold tag - again no idea why.
NOTE: i am having it write to html just for testing purposes. in actuality, i will be building an array of these values so that they can be accessed later.
Any ideas how i can parse these values using "<br>" as my delimiter? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-d

Answer 1

From the javadoc for StringTokenizer constructor:
public StringTokenizer(String str,
String delim)
Constructs a string tokenizer for the specified string. The characters in the delim argument are the delimiters for separating tokens. Delimiter characters themselves will not be treated as tokens.
So the string is being split on any instance of '<', 'b', 'r', or '>'. It doesn't look like you're going to be able to use StringTokeizer to do what you want. You will probably have to write your own tokenizer. You can use String.indexOf( String ) to find out where "<br>" is in your string, and then use String.subString( int, int ) to extract the chars between the <br> tags.