Split String - Java

[Wozzer]

Hi all,

I've created a program to split a string which contains latitude coordinates.

 String[] temp;
        
        String delimiter = "°";
        
        temp = MetaData.latitude.split(delimiter);
 
        for (int i = 0; i < temp.length; i++) {
            System.out.println(temp[i]);
        }

For arguments sake, here is a latitude string: 52°97'0.6822"

The program above will only do up to 97. I was thinking of using a loop, but unsure how to go about doing it.

Any input would be helpful.

Cheers

[Kreij]

You could try using the regex or operator.

String[] temp = MetaData.latitude.split("°|\\'|\\"")

I'm not sure if I got the regex syntax correct. lol

[W1zzard]

you definitely want to use a regular expression for this. to parse the whole thing, dont split

[Maelstrom]

Originally Posted by Kreij

You could try using the regex or operator.

String[] temp = MetaData.latitude.split("°|\\'|\\"")

I'm not sure if I got the regex syntax correct. lol

What you wrote throws an error when compiling. Should be:

String[] temp = MetaData.latitude.split("°|\'|\"")

The regex stuff does work though (Thanks for showing that Kreij! Didn't know about that):

[Kreij]

Originally Posted by Maelstrom

What you wrote throws an error when compiling. Should be:

String[] temp = MetaData.latitude.split("°|\'|\"")

The regex stuff does work though (Thanks for showing that Kreij! Didn't know about that):

http://img.techpowerup.org/121120/javatest.png

Yeah, that why I said I wasn't sure about the syntax and if it needed to be double backslashed.
I'm also not sure what he plans on doing with the coordinates once they are split out.
He should put them in a float array if he will need to do calculation with them.

[Wozzer]

Originally Posted by Kreij

He should put them in a float array if he will need to do calculation with them.

The answer to my next question

I'm converting decimal degrees into degrees, minutes, seconds.

Thanks Kreij