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You need to look at the java.util.StringTokenizer class.  It has pretty much everything you are looking for.


Michael A. Angelo wrote in message <364253B2.CA3E394F@usa.net>...
>OK. This is going to be hard to explain, but here it goes.
>
>I need to write an application or applet to read a file and parse it
>into fields. Easy enough. For the most part it is. The only problem is
>that a name field can be a number of different ways.
>
>Example:
>
>John Q. Doe
>J. Quincy Doe
>J. Q. Doe
>Mr. John Q. Doe
>Dr. J. Q. Doe
>
>Get the picture. We cannot ask the provider of the data file to conform
>to a particular format, and there are many providers hence many formats.
>
>What I was hoping for is something like encoding according to a pattern.
>The patterns could then be stored in a properties type file. Each
>provider would have their own property file. The same Java engine would
>then be able to process the name.
>
>Example of algorithm:
>
>String                Pattern        Encode                Result
>--------------
>J. Quincy Doe    A. B C        C    B    A           Doe    Quincy    J
>    A = J (No . because the . is part of the pattern)
>    B = Quincy
>    C = Doe
>
>John Q. Doe    A B. C         C, A                    Doe, John
>    A = John
>    B = Q (no .)
>    C = Doe
>
>Get the picture?
>
>Any help would be great! If you need a future explanation, let me know.
>
>Mike
>mikeangelo@usa.net
>