StringTokenizer not working as I was expecting

Question

Hi all, I have a question related to StringTokenizer class. It is not giving me the results I was expecting. May be my understanding is wrong.
This is my code:
String string = null;
String delimiter = null;
StringTokenizer tokenizer = null;
string = "Normal";
delimiter = "_crMULT_";
System.out.println("string=" + string);
System.out.println("delimiter=" + delimiter);
tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(string, delimiter);
while (tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
     System.out.println("tokenizer.nextToken()=" + tokenizer.nextToken());
}This is the result I am getting:
string=Normal
delimiter=_crMULT_
tokenizer.nextToken()=No
tokenizer.nextToken()=mal
I thought this is the result I will get:
string=Normal
delimiter=_crMULT_
tokenizer.nextToken()=Normal
What I am doing wrong here?
Edited by: 962950 on Oct 3, 2012 10:12 AM

Answer 1

rp0428 wrote:
>
string=Normal
delimiter=_crMULT_
tokenizer.nextToken()=No
tokenizer.nextToken()=mal
>
The first delimiter character found in 'Normal' is 'r' so the first token is 'No'.
None of the other delimiter characters was found so the next, and last token is 'mal' since the 'r' was a delimiter and was stripped.The OP's confusion was thinking that the delimiter String was a single, multi-character delimiter, hence my reply.