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javastringparsingwords

Java- how to parse for words in a string for a specific word

How would I parse for the word "hi" in the sentence "hi, how are you?" or in parse for the word "how" in "how are you?"?

example of what I want in code:

String word = "hi";
String word2 = "how";
Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in).useDelimiter("\n");
String s = scan.nextLine();
if(s.equals(word)) {
System.out.println("Hey");
}
if(s.equals(word2)) {
System.out.println("Hey");
}
Solution

  • To just find the substring, you can use contains or indexOf or any other variant:

    http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/String.html

    if( s.contains( word ) ) {
   // ...
}

if( s.indexOf( word2 ) >=0 ) {
   // ...
}

    If you care about word boundaries, then StringTokenizer is probably a good approach.

    https://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/StringTokenizer.html

    You can then perform a case-insensitive check (equalsIgnoreCase) on each word.