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Just a suggestion, but why not try the StringTokenizer class?  You
should be able to instantiate it and give it a number of delimiters.
Seems this class was created for just this sort of thing.

Richard Merdinger
Jomax Technologies Inc
rmerdinger@jomax.net


On Thu, 12 Mar 1998 07:55:55 +0000, Richard Evans
<evansar@genrad.co.uk> wrote:

>Mike,
>
>     String temp = textField1.getText();
>      myString1.setText(temp.substring(0, temp.indexOf("-")));
>      myString2.setText(temp.substring(temp.indexOf("-") + 1,
>temp.indexOf(",")));
>      myString3.setText(temp.substring(temp.indexOf(",") + 1,
>temp.length()));
>
>Rich Evans.
>
>
>Mike Harris wrote:
>
>> I have a string in textField1 = "ABC-123,DEF". I would like the result
>> to be 3 strings: mystring1 = "ABC", mystring2 = "123", and mystring =
>> "DEF".  I am having problems with using substring and indexOf (to find
>> the positions of "-" and ",").  What would be the proper syntax?  Am I
>> using the correct functions?
>>
>> THANKS!
>> Mike
>
>
>