Parsing Character-Separated Data with a Regular Expression

This section illustrates you how to split String data (separated by "," or "and/or"). These words are
shown in a new line without the word or characters which is used for separation
the word of the sentences through the given regular expression of the following
program.
Program Result:
This program takes a complete string or text with the
many separation of words and detects every comma, and|or separation from the
given sentences. It besides all word or the collection of words from where the
comma or and|or separation is used. The complete separate word is shown in a new
line.
Code Description:
String[] str = string.split("[, ]+(and|or)*[
]"):
Above code splits the value of String type variable string
with the ","(comma), " ", "and" or "or"
separators and store it into a String array str which value is shown by
the following program one-by-one.
Here is the code of the program:
import java.util.regex.*;
import java.io.*;
public class ParseSeparatedData{
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException{
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
System.out.print("Enter string for finding separated data: ");
String string = in.readLine();
String[] str = string.split("[, ]+(and|or)*[ ]");
for (int i = 0; i < str.length; i++){
System.out.println(str[i]);
}
}
}
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