I'm not sure if this quite what you are looking for, but it will strip down the quoted parts in steps...
String quote = "I say: \"I have something to say, \"It's better to burn out then fade away\"\" outloud...";
if (quote.contains("\"")) {
while (quote.contains("\"")) {
int startIndex = quote.indexOf("\"");
int endIndex = quote.lastIndexOf("\"");
quote = quote.substring(startIndex + 1, endIndex);
System.out.println(quote);
}
}
Which outputs...
I have something to say, "It's better to burn out then fade away"
It's better to burn out then fade away
Updated
I don't know if this is cheating or not...
String quote = "I say: \"I have something to say, \"It's better to burn out then fade away\"\" outloud...\"Just in case you don't believe me\"";
String[] split = quote.split("\"");
for (String value : split) {
System.out.println(value);
}
Which outputs...
I say:
I have something to say,
It's better to burn out then fade away
outloud...
Just in case you don't believe me
Updated
Okay, fake String#split
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(quote.length());
for (int index = 0; index < quote.length(); index++) {
if (quote.charAt(index) == '"') {
System.out.println(sb);
sb.delete(0, sb.length());
} else {
sb.append(quote.charAt(index));
}
}
Updated
Okay, this is basically fake split
with options...
String quote = "blah blah 123 \"hello\" 234 \"world\"";
boolean quoteOpen = false;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(quote.length());
for (int index = 0; index < quote.length(); index++) {
if (quote.charAt(index) == '"') {
if (quoteOpen) {
System.out.println("Quote: [" + sb.toString() + "]");
quoteOpen = false;
sb.delete(0, sb.length());
} else {
System.out.println("Text: [" + sb.toString() + "]");
sb.delete(0, sb.length());
quoteOpen = true;
}
} else {
sb.append(quote.charAt(index));
}
}
if (sb.length() > 0) {
if (quoteOpen) {
System.out.println("Quote: [" + sb.toString() + "]");
} else {
System.out.println("Text: [" + sb.toString() + "]");
}
}
Which generates...
Text: [blah blah 123 ]
Quote: [hello]
Text: [ 234 ]
Quote: [world]
Know, I don't know how you are storing the results. I would be tempted to create some basic classes which were capable of storing the String
results and add them to a List
so I could maintain the order and maybe use a flag of some kind to determine what type they are...