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Re: Can you use a String as a delimeter in StringTokenizer

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From: Paul Furbacher [TeamB]
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 18:54
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"John McGrath [TeamB]" wrote:

> 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.

Right, that's because you probably made a clear distinction 
between "delimiter" and the actual parameter name "delimiters".
In my sloppy way of reading, I sometimes see the former
which makes me imagine StringTokenizer works one way, and
then on other occasions, when I'm actually _thinking_ while
carefully reading (I can't chew gum and walk at the same time
on most days), I understand something completely different --
that is, the was it really works.


Paul Furbacher (TeamB)
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