Java StringTokenizer nextToken() method example

public String nextToken()

throws

NoSuchElementException – if there are no more tokens in this tokenizer’s string.

The nextToken() method returns the next token from this string tokenizer.

Requires Java 1.0 and up

Below is a java code demonstrates the use of nextToken() method of StringTokenizer class. The example presented might be simple however it shows the behaviour of the nextToken() method. Basically we have a string  declared initially and as you can see it’s actually a group of string delimited by “|” pipe. And we used StringTokenizer to break it down into tokens. This will transform the String into a more meaningful information on this case, we presented the first token as string, then the second as age, etc.

package com.javatutorialhq.java.examples;

import java.util.StringTokenizer;

/*
 * This example source code demonstrates the use of  
 * nextToken() method of StringTokenizer class.
 * 
 */

public class StringTokenizerNextTokenExample {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		
		//declare a new String with tokens delimited by |
		String str = "Vince|2|Male|Paya Lebar, Singapore";
		
		/*
		 * initialize our StringTokenizer using input 
		 * as source String and | as the delimiter
		 */

		StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(str,"|");
		
		String name = st.nextToken();
		String age = st.nextToken();
		String gender = st.nextToken();
		String address = st.nextToken();
		System.out.println("Name:"+name);
		System.out.println("Age:"+age);
		System.out.println("Gender:"+gender);
		System.out.println("Address:"+address);
		
	}

}

Below is the sample output when you run the above example.

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