separating a sentence into words

Hi,

It depends on what a word is. Is "it's" one word or two? The most common way is to treat everything between blanks as a word. So this is what you basically need to do.

1) Trim of all whitespaces from the beginning and the end of the string.

2) Start looking for a white space.

3) If one is found, increase the word counter, and skip all consecutive spaces untill you find a character which isn't a space charater.

4) Goto 2

You can do all of this using methods in the String class (e.g. charAt(i) etc)

Kaj

kajbja at 2007-7-13 2:54:50 >

You question can be best answered by using the Java native method

import java.util.StringTokenizer;

....

....

StringTokenizer word =

new StringTokenizer("You have the answer, Spider.", " \n.,");

while (word.hasMoreTokens())

{

System.out.println(word.nextToken());

}

Output:

You

have

the

answer

Spider

The string tokenizer is provided a sentence and a set of separators. In this case the blank, new-line, comma and period. So, the basic idea is:

Start from the beginning of the sentence provided.

Scan each character and check if it is the one specified as separators.

If it is, print all the character/s before the separator.

Start again from the position right after the sepator and follow the same technique to iterate through the whole sentence.

I hope that will help you to implement your own algorithm.

Good luck!

buteForcea at 2007-7-13 2:54:50 >