Parsing a comma separated string

Question:

How to parse words from a comma separated string?

Answer:

Use: string.split()

It splits a string around matches of the given regular expression.

See: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#split

Code:

public class DelimitedByCommas {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
 
      String str = "Paul,John,George,Ringo";
      System.out.println("String: " + str);
 
      System.out.println("1st: " + str.split(",")[0] );
      System.out.println("2nd: " + str.split(",")[1] );
      System.out.println("3rd: " + str.split(",")[2] );
      System.out.println("4th: " + str.split(",")[3] );
 
   }
}

Output:

$ java DelimitedByCommas
String: Paul,John,George,Ringo
1st: Paul
2nd: John
3rd: George
4th: Ringo