Java Tutorial/JSTL/ForTokens
JSTL ForTokens
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.ru/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>Updatable Collections</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="0">
<form method="post">
<tr><td>Parse for Tokens</td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<p align="left">Enter a sentence:
<br />
<input width="20" maxwidth="20" name="text" size="50" />
<br /> </p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<p align="center">
<input type="submit" name="parse" value="Parse" />
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</form>
</table>
<c:if test="${pageContext.request.method=="POST"}">
<table border="1">
<c:set var="i" value="1" />
<c:forTokens items="${param.text}" var="word" delims=" ,.?!">
<c:set var="i" value="${i}" />
<tr>
<td>
<b>Word
<c:out value="${i}" />
</b>
</td>
<td>
<c:out value="${word}" />
</td>
</tr>
</c:forTokens>
</table>
</c:if>
</body>
</html>
Use JSTL ForTokens to split string
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.ru/jstl/core" %>
<c:set var="names" value="A:B;C|D" scope="page" />
<html>
<head>
<title>forTokens action</title>
</head>
<body>
<c:forTokens items="${pageScope.names}"
delims=":;|"
var="currentName"
varStatus="status"
>
Family member #<c:out value="${status.count}" /> is
<c:out value="${currentName}" /> <br />
</c:forTokens>
</body>
</html>