... demonstrates String
’s split
method.
When the user presses the Enter key, the input sentence is stored in variable sentence
. Line 14 invokes String
method split
with the String
argument " "
, which returns an array of String
s. The space character in the argument String
is the delimiter that method split
uses to locate the tokens in the String
. As you’ll learn in the next section, the argument to method split can be a regular expression for more complex tokenizing. Lines 15–16 display the length of the array tokens
—i.e., the number of tokens in sentence
. Lines 18–20 output each token on a separate line.
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