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Java Java Data Structures - Retired Organizing Data Splitting Strings

Fahad Mutair
Fahad Mutair
10,359 Points
Posted by Fahad Mutair
Fahad Mutair
10,359 Points

Not splitting the words in lines!!

Not splitting the words in lines!! as showing in the Video any Help here's my Snapshot https://w.trhou.se/ydfknmkcoh

2 Answers

Morgan Welch
Morgan Welch
24,127 Points

You're missing the opening bracket of your regex in getWords().

You have:

public String[] getWords() { return mDescription.toLowerCase().split("^\w#@']+"); }

Should be:

public String[] getWords() { return mDescription.toLowerCase().split("[^\w#@']+"); }

Fahad Mutair
Fahad Mutair
10,359 Points
Fahad Mutair
Fahad Mutair
10,359 Points

Thanks a lot it's so hard to see

Oliver Michaelsen
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Oliver Michaelsen
Courses Plus Student 1,166 Points
Oliver Michaelsen
Oliver Michaelsen
Courses Plus Student 1,166 Points

Please clarify what you need help with.