Split string into individual words Java

As a more general solution (but ASCII only!), to include any other separators between words (like commas and semicolons), I suggest:

String s = "I want to walk my dog, cat, and tarantula; maybe even my tortoise."; String[] words = s.split("\\W+"); 

The regex means that the delimiters will be anything that is not a word [\W], in groups of at least one [+]. Because [+] is greedy, it will take for instance ';' and ' ' together as one delimiter.

A regex can also be used to split words.

\w can be used to match word characters ([A-Za-z0-9_]), so that punctuation is removed from the results:

String s = "I want to walk my dog, and why not?"; Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\w+"); Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(s); while (matcher.find()) { System.out.println(matcher.group()); } 

Outputs:

I want to walk my dog and why not 

See Java API documentation for Pattern

See my other answer if your phrase contains accentuated characters :

String[] listeMots = phrase.split("\\P{L}+"); 

Yet another method, using StringTokenizer :

String s = "I want to walk my dog"; StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(s); while(tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) { System.out.println(tokenizer.nextToken()); } 

To include any separators between words (like everything except all lower case and upper case letters), we can do:

String mystring = "hi, there,hi Leo"; String[] arr = mystring.split("[^a-zA-Z]+"); for(int i = 0; i < arr.length; i += 1) { System.out.println(arr[i]); } 

Here the regex means that the separators will be anything that is not a upper or lower case letter [^a-zA-Z], in groups of at least one [+].

You can use split(" ") method of the String class and can get each word as code given below:

String s = "I want to walk my dog"; String []strArray=s.split(" "); for(int i=0; i<strArray.length;i++) { System.out.println(strArray[i]); } 

This regex will split word by space like space, tab, line break:

String[] str = s.split("\\s+"); 

Use split()

String words[] = stringInstance.split(" "); 

StringTokenizer separate = new StringTokenizer(s, " "); String word = separate.nextToken(); System.out.println(word); 

Java String split() method example

 public class SplitExample{ public static void main(String args[]){ String str="java string split method"; String[] words=str.split("\\s");//splits the string based on whitespace for(String word:words){ System.out.println(word); } } } 

you can use Apache commons' StringUtils class

String[] partsOfString = StringUtils.split("I want to walk my dog", StringUtils.SPACE) 

class test{ public static void main(String[] args){ StringTokenizer st= new StringTokenizer("I want to walk my dog."); while (st.hasMoreTokens()) System.out.println(st.nextToken()); } } 

Using Java Stream API:

String sentence = "I want to walk my dog."; Arrays.stream(sentence.split(" ")).forEach(System.out::println); 

Output:

I want to walk my dog. 

Or

String sentence2 = "I want to walk my dog."; Arrays.stream(sentence2.split(" ")).map(str -> str.replace(".", "")).forEach(System.out::println); 

Output:

I want to walk my dog 

String[] str = s.split("[^a-zA-Z]+");