split strArguments

Ok in my program (a bot actually), I need to send a message to a certain user name. So right now if I want to send a message to someone with the username "Jack" I type "!send jack:hello there"and the bot sends this message to 'jack' "jack:hello there". The bot does not know that I want anything before ":" to be the username ONLY and anything AFTER : to be the 'message' to send.

So I was told I need to use something like this:

strArguments.split(":", 1);

strArguments is what a user types to the bot. So I need to define TWO DIFFERENT strArguments.

But i'm not sure how to put this into the code.

ToddPa at 2007-7-13 23:17:19 >

If !send

is the command to send a message, I prefer to use java.utiil.regex packege to do the. although this may look abit complicated.

public String[] parseSend(String s) {

String p = "\\!send ([a-zA-Z]*)\\:(.*)";

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(p);

Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(s);

String[] result = new String[2];

if (matcher.matches()) {

int start = matcher.start(1);

int end = matcher.end(1);;

result[0] = s.substring(start, end); // name

start = matcher.start(2);

end = matcher.end(2);

result[2] = s.substring(start, end); // msg

}

return result;

}

mickey_chonga at 2007-7-13 23:17:19 >