Hi everybody!

I have to read each line from a texte file. Each line looks like this:
Napoleon | Caesar | Mickey | Lucky Luke
Next, I have to convert this String to get the following Array:
name[0]="Napoleon"
name[1]="Caesar"
name[2]="Mickey"
name[3]="Lucky Luke"

Here's the code:

Pattern p = Pattern.compile("Napoleon | Caesar | Mickey | Lucky Luke");
Matcher m = p.matcher("\\u7C?\\u20\\p{Alnum}*\\u20\\u7C?");

System.out.println("(" + m.groupCount() +" names) ");

\\u7C may represent character | in ASCII(hex)
\\u20 may represent character SPACE in ASCII(hex)

And the result:

0 names

Any idea? I'm getting crazy!!!!!

Thanks for your help,
Zelos

: Hi everybody!
:
: I have to read each line from a texte file. Each line looks like this:
: Napoleon | Caesar | Mickey | Lucky Luke
: Next, I have to convert this String to get the following Array:
: name[0]="Napoleon"
: name[1]="Caesar"
: name[2]="Mickey"
: name[3]="Lucky Luke"
:
: Here's the code:
:
: Pattern p = Pattern.compile("Napoleon | Caesar | Mickey | Lucky Luke");
: Matcher m = p.matcher("\\u7C?\\u20\\p{Alnum}*\\u20\\u7C?");
:
: System.out.println("(" + m.groupCount() +" names) ");
:
: \\u7C may represent character | in ASCII(hex)
: \\u20 may represent character SPACE in ASCII(hex)
:
: And the result:
:
: 0 names
:
: Any idea? I'm getting crazy!!!!!
:
: Thanks for your help,
: Zelos
:


hi,
i have absolutely no idea what you are trying to do, the code above makes no sence to me. you compile a regular expression and try if it matches a character sequence, i think you switched this.
for instance the regular expression "[01]+[bB]" matches '0101b' or '0101011100B' etc. so if you like to test whether 'asdf' matches "[01]+[bB]" you will have to code the following

  Pattern binNo = Pattern.compile("[01]+[bB]");
  Matcher doesMatch = binNo.matcher("01001111b");
  Matcher noMatch = binNo.matcher("asdf");

  System.out.println("doesMatch: "+doesMatch.matches());
  System.out.println("noMatch:   "+noMatch.matchers());

greetings
mo