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On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 14:36:52 -0500, Paul Furbacher [TeamB] wrote:

> If you can drill down into the StringTokenizer class,
> look at the scanToken() method.  You'll notice that it
> decomposes the "str" one character at a time from a
> starting position.  It then asks, "is this character in
> the "delimiters" by checking for an indexOf() >= 0.  
> So, the approach taken by StringTokenizer to get tokens
> is just about backwards from the way you (and many others)
> think it should be working (i.e., looking for the string
> you give as the delimiters as a substring of the source
> string).

The way I (and the StringTokenizer designer, I presume) think of it is 
that StringTokenizer takes a set of delimiter characters as the second 
argument to the constructor, and a String is a convenient way to 
represent a set of characters.

-- 
Regards,

John McGrath [TeamB]

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