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I need to tokenize this string.

AddItem rt456 4  12 BOOK "File Structures" "Addison-Wesley" "Michael Folk"

I need 

"AddItem","rt456","12","BOOK","File Structures","Addison-Wesley","Michael Folk"

substrings. How i can get these tokens with using split()?

Rohit Jain
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user3460845
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  • Really, `split`? Why you want to complicate your life? Wouldn't simple Pattern/Matcher be simpler? You can also write your own simple parser for that. – Pshemo Mar 25 '14 at 17:28

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List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
Matcher m = Pattern.compile("([^\"]\\S*|\".+?\")\\s*").matcher(str);
while (m.find())
    list.add(m.group(1));

Output:

[AddItem, rt456, 4, 12, BOOK, "File Structures", "Addison-Wesley", "Michael Folk"]
Brian
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