String Tokenizer in JSP

What is the best way to write a string tokenizer is a JSP page??
I am passing a vector to the JSP page which is being outputted on to the page and now I want to edit the contents of the vector. I need to tokenize the vector into a series of strings but I am making a hash of it so far.
Is there a better way to do this?

I'm not sure what your exact question is. StringTokenizer works with String classes not Vectors. Do you want to change the data in the Vector and leave the Vector in tact, or do you want to retrieve the data from the Vector and do something with it?
You can retrive the contents of the Vector into an Object array, or you can enumerate through the elements, or you can use the get method itself. It depends on what you need to do.

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    Friend use code tag to post your code.
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    char lCurly
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    Hi,
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    Process completed.

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