Parsing a string using StringTokenizer

Question

Hi,
I want to parse a string such as
String input = ab{cd}:"abc""de"{
and the extracted tokens should be as follows
ab
cd
"abc""de"
As a result, I used the StringTokenizer class with deilmeter {,},:
StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(input,"{}:", true);
In this was, I can separate the tokens and also can get the delimeters. The problem is I don't know how to parse the string that has double quote on it. If a single quote " is taken as a delimeter then
", abc, ",", de," all of them will be taken as a separate token. My intention is to get the whole string inside the double quote as a token including the quotes on it. Moreover, if there is any escape character "", it should be also included in the token. Help please.
Thanks

Answer 1

A bit of a "sticky tape"-solution...
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String input = "ab{cd}:\"abc\"\"de\"";
        StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(input, "{}:", true);
        while(st.hasMoreTokens()) {
        String token = st.nextToken();
        if(token.startsWith("\"") && token.endsWith("\"")) {
        token = token.substring(1,token.length()-1);
            System.out.println(token);
}