/**
* Splits the input string into strings separated by the delimiter and put them into a Vector.
*
* @param delimiter splitting delimiter
* @param input input string
* @return returns a Vector containing the substrings of the input that occur between delimiter.
* Returns the Vector with original string as only the element when the delimiter is not found
* in the input string.
* @exception throws a FrameworkException when either input/delimiter is null.
*/
public static Vector split(String delimiter, String input) throws FrameworkException {
if (input == null || delimiter == null) {
throw new FrameworkException(
"RegexUtils: split(): input or delimiter is null."
+ "input ="
+ input
+ ", "
+ "delimiter = "
+ delimiter);
}
Perl5Util util = new Perl5Util();
Vector result = new Vector();
// convert the delimiter to the perl5 format
delimiter = makePerl5MatchPattern(delimiter);
try {
// Populate the vector argument with split strings
util.split(result, delimiter, input, util.SPLIT_ALL);
} catch (MalformedPerl5PatternException e) {
throw new FrameworkException("RegexUtils: split():" + e.getMessage());
}
return result;
}
