how to convert an integer string separated by space into an array in JAVA

Question

Suppose I have a string "1 23 40 187 298". This string only contains integers and spaces. How can I convert this string to an integer array, which is [1,23,40,187,298]. this is how I tried

public static void main(String[] args) {
    String numbers = "12 1 890 65";
    String temp = new String();
    int[] ary = new int[4];
    int j=0;
    for (int i=0;i<numbers.length();i++)
    {

        if (numbers.charAt(i)!=' ')
            temp+=numbers.charAt(i);
        if (numbers.charAt(i)==' '){
            ary[j]=Integer.parseInt(temp);
            j++;
        }
    }
}

but it doesn't work, please offer some help. Thank you!

Answer 1

You are forgetting about

• resetting temp to empty string after you parse it to create place for new digits

• that at the end of your string will be no space, so

  if (numbers.charAt(i) == ' ') {
      ary[j] = Integer.parseInt(temp);
      j++;
  }
  

  will not be invoked, which means you need invoke

  ary[j] = Integer.parseInt(temp);
  

  once again after your loop

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But simpler way would be just using split(" ") to create temporary array of tokens and then parse each token to int like

String numbers = "12 1 890 65";
String[] tokens = numbers.split(" ");
int[] ary = new int[tokens.length];

int i = 0;
for (String token : tokens){
    ary[i++] = Integer.parseInt(token); 
}

which can also be shortened with streams added in Java 8:

String numbers = "12 1 890 65";
int[] array = Stream.of(numbers.split(" "))
                    .mapToInt(token -> Integer.parseInt(token))
                    .toArray();

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Other approach could be using Scanner and its nextInt() method to return all integers from your input. With assumption that you already know the size of needed array you can simply use

String numbers = "12 1 890 65";
int[] ary = new int[4];

int i = 0;
Scanner sc = new Scanner(numbers);
while(sc.hasNextInt()){
    ary[i++] = sc.nextInt();
}