splitting up input

[krishon]

i need help with a particular exercise. In the question, i need to read in a users name with a space separating the first and last name (which i can do). However, i'm to split up the first and last name and store them into separate variables. That's the part i have no clue how to do.......ne help will be appreciated

[Tony]

cant you just use substring?

Edit: new code

code:

import java.io.*; public class substrings {         public static void main(String[] args) {                                                 InputStreamReader istream = new InputStreamReader(System.in);                 BufferedReader bufRead = new BufferedReader(istream);                                 String text;                 String name1;                 String name2;                                 System.out.println("enter your full name");                 try                 {                 text = bufRead.readLine();                 name1 = text.substring(0,text.indexOf(" "));                 name2 = text.substring(text.indexOf(" ")+1);                                 System.out.println(name1);                 System.out.println(name2);                 }                 catch(Exception e)                 {                         System.out.println("error occured");                 }                 } }

[krishon]

ye that's wut i thought tooo, i know to use the substring, i jsut dun't know how to see where the space is....ur idea wuz wut i thought at the start...but the only problem like i said wuz to detect the space

[rizzix]

so problem solved right. i mean tony solved it for you. he detected the space and split the string.

[krishon]

yah...he did thx tony

[rizzix]

here's an alternate way (lesser code) [wow you've got to love this language]:

code:

String input = "John Doe"; // lets suppose this is the input you get String[] names = input.split(" "); System.out.println(names[0]);  // First name System.out.println(names[1]);  // Last name

works only with 1.4.x^ ( i haven't tested it )

[krishon]

its the string names [] an array (i haven't learned it yet, lol, we're on strings)

[rizzix]

Yes!! ... wow you reply fast.

[Tony]

I've just posted substring way up there /\

but I like the new .split way even more 8)

oh man, JAVA pwnz

[krishon]

lol, yah...bout teh fast replyin...having msn on and having it notify can help

[krishon]

lol, tony if i used ur code, my teacher would know someone's helping, cuz i dunno try and catch

[krishon]

hmm....while we're on the topic of java.....can someone write a tutorial about graphics...i dun't expect this if you are too busy, but it'll be great if u can write one

[Tony]

how do you get terminal input then? cuz my IDE doesnt let me use input stream without try/catch block

[krishon]

well our teacher taught us the GUI input....nice and ez, plus unlike turing I CAN GET THE VALUES FROM THE GUI BOX , wow that's gotta be under the cons of turing

[rizzix]

so krishon, what do mean graphics... as in displaying images.. manipulating images... or GUI!! ??