java - How To split String A,B,C,D,"E,F",G,H

Question

I want to split this String A,B,C,D,"E,F",G,H with comma(,) operator but not split the "E,F".. I want this following output.

A
B
C
D
E,F
G
H

Answer 1

this may help:

    String s = "A,B,C,D,"E,F",G,H";
    String[] tmp = s.split(","|",");
    List<String> result = new ArrayList<>();

    for(int i=0; i<tmp.length; i++) {
        if (i % 2 == 0) {
            result.addAll(Arrays.asList(tmp[i].split(",")));
        }else {
            result.add(tmp[i]);
        }
    }

The result list contains the elements