/*license*\ XBN-Java Library Copyright (c) 2014, Jeff Epstein (aliteralmind __DASH__ github __AT__ yahoo __DOT__ com) This software is dual-licensed under the: - Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3.0 or, at your option, any later version; - Apache Software License (ASL) version 2.0. Either license may be applied at your discretion. More information may be found at - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-licensing. The text of both licenses is available in the root directory of this project, under the names "LICENSE_lgpl-3.0.txt" and "LICENSE_asl-2.0.txt". The latest copies may be downloaded at: - LGPL 3.0: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt - ASL 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt \*license*/ package com.github.xbn.examples.regexutil.non_xbn; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; /** <p>Takes an input string such as {@code "(1.0,2.0) (2,7.6) (2.1,3.0)"}, and translates each parenthesized set of numbers to an array of doubles.</p> <p>{@code java com.github.xbn.examples.regexutil.non_xbn.DoublesInParenStringsToArrays}</p> * @since 0.1.0 * @author Copyright (C) 2014, Jeff Epstein ({@code aliteralmind __DASH__ github __AT__ yahoo __DOT__ com}), dual-licensed under the LGPL (version 3.0 or later) or the ASL (version 2.0). See source code for details. <a href="http://xbnjava.aliteralmind.com">{@code http://xbnjava.aliteralmind.com}</a>, <a href="https://github.com/aliteralmind/xbnjava">{@code https://github.com/aliteralmind/xbnjava}</a> **/ public class DoublesInParenStringsToArrays { public static final void main(String[] ignored) { String input = "(1.0,2.0) (2,7.6) (2.1,3.0)"; String[] inputs = input.split(" "); //"": Dummy string, to reuse matcher Matcher mtchrGetNums = Pattern.compile("\\b([\\d.]+)\\b").matcher(""); for(String s : inputs) { ArrayList<Double> doubleList = new ArrayList<Double>(); mtchrGetNums.reset(s); while(mtchrGetNums.find()) { //TODO: Crash if it's not a number! doubleList.add(Double.parseDouble(mtchrGetNums.group(0))); } Double[] doubles = doubleList.toArray(new Double[doubleList.size()]); System.out.println(Arrays.toString(doubles)); } } }