Parsing a string in java

In my program, I have to read in a string, and parse it into different words. For example, if I read in the line, "this is a sentence", I need to be able to split this string into "this" "is" "a" "senence" (four new strings). How can I do this?

You could use a SttringTokenizer
is really simple
             StringTokenizer s = new StringTokenizer( "this is a test" );
             while( s.hasMoreTokens() ){
                 System.out.println( s.nextToken() );
             }

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