Spliting a string after 7th space in java

Question

I have a

String data =
-rw-rw-r--+ 1 aime1 svrtech 83338 Apr 2 10:26 sat.log -rw-rw-r--+ 1 aime1 svrtech 2435 Apr 2 10:48 MAT.log -rw-rw-r--+ 1 aime1 svrtech 3470 Apr 2 08:35 ant_build.log 

I want to split this as following and want to store in ArrayList

-rw-rw-r--+ 1 aime1 svrtech 83338 Apr 2 10:26 sat.log 

-rw-rw-r--+ 1 aime1 svrtech 2435 Apr 2 10:48 MAT.log

-rw-rw-r--+ 1 aime1 svrtech 3470 Apr 2 08:35 ant_build.log

I thought of using split function. How do i split on 7th space. Anyone having idea how to do that.

Answer 1

String#split takes the regex as the arguments,so try with something like this

String data ="-rw-rw-r--+ 1 aime1 svrtech 83338 Apr 2 10:26 sat.log -rw-rw-r--+ 1 aime1 svrtech 2435 Apr 2 10:48 MAT.log -rw-rw-r--+ 1 aime1 svrtech 3470 Apr 2 08:35 ant_build.log";

    String arr[]=data.split("(?<=.log )");
    for(String s:arr){
    System.out.println(s);
    }