String split comma and parenthisis-JAVA

Question

Convert the string: "(id,created,employee(id,firstname,employeeType(id), lastname),location)" to the following output id created employee - id - firstname - employeeType -- id - lastname location

is there any optimistic solution available with using regular expression

my current one is not working actually.. if you have a solution can you post please.. here is how i want it . — Pras, Mar 30 '17 at 15:37
id created employee - id - firstname - employeeType -- id - lastname location — Pras, Mar 30 '17 at 15:37
Show your code and explain what the problem is. We won't just do it for you. — tnw, Mar 30 '17 at 15:38
@Pras: You will be downvoted into oblivion if you don't post the code that you have so far. This is not a "please-write-code-for-me" site. — Axel, Mar 30 '17 at 15:38

Dakoda · Answer 1 · 2017-03-30T15:55:27.583

public static void main(String[] args) {
    String a = "(id,created,employee(id,firstname," + 
             "employeeType(id), lastname),location)";
    StringTokenizer tok = new StringTokenizer(a, "(), ");
    System.out.println("StringTokenizer example");
    while (tok.hasMoreElements()) {
        String b = (String)tok.nextElement();
        System.out.println(b);
    }
    System.out.println("Split example");
    String[] array = a.split("(),");
    for (String ii: array) {
         System.out.println(ii);
    }

 } 
}

Outputs

StringTokenizer example
id
created
employee
id
firstname
employeeType
id
lastname
location
Split example
(id
created
employee(id
firstname
employeeType(id)
lastname)
location)

You can add the hyphens.

Why doesn't split split on parentheses? – older coder Mar 30 '17 at 16:23 — older coder, Mar 30 '17 at 16:23

String split comma and parenthisis-JAVA

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