How to splitting different special characters in Java with using if contains?

Question

I have “-“ characters in my strings as below. I am using if contains “-“ and splitting correctly. But some string values are also “-“ characters in different indexes. I tried to use 2nd if contains “.-“ cannot solve the issue as well. So have can I get correct outputs without “-“ characters perfectly?

13-adana-demirspor -> has 2 “-“ characters.

15-y.-malatyaspor -> has “-“ characters too.

1st and 2nd strings makes problem for splitting.

And others has only one “-“ character and no issue.

My Code is:

final String [] URL  = {
            "13-adana-demirspor",
            "14-fenerbahce",
            "15-y.-malatyaspor",
            "16-trabzonspor",
            "17-sivasspor",
            "18-konyaspor",
            "19-giresunspor",        
            "20-galatasaray"
          };

        for(int i=0; i<URL.length; i++)

        String team;

    if (URL[i].contains("-")) {
        String[] divide = URL[i].split("-");
        team = divide[1];
        System.out.println("     " + team.toUpperCase());

    } else if (URL[i].contains(".-")){
        String[] divide = URL[i].split(".-");
        team = divide[2];
        System.out.println("     " + team.toUpperCase());

    }else {
        team = null;
    }

My Output is:

ADANA ** missing second word

FENERBAHCE

Y. ** missing second word

TRABZONSPOR

SIVASSPOR

KONYASPOR

GIRESUNSPOR

GALATASARAY

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

it looks like you just want to split on the first occurence. for this you can use the second parameter of split and set that to 2. So like

if (URL[i].contains("-")) {
    String[] divide = URL[i].split("-", 2);
    team = divide[1];
    System.out.println("     " + team.toUpperCase());
} else {
    team = null;
}

to get the last part instead you could do

if (URL[i].contains("-")) {
    String[] divide = URL[i].split("-");
    team = divide[divide.length - 1];
    System.out.println("     " + team.toUpperCase());
} else {
    team = null;
}