shlex alternative for Java

Question

Is there a shlex alternative for Java? I'd like to be able to split quote delimited strings like the shell would process them. For example, if I'd send :

one two "three four"

and perform a split, I'd like to receive the tokens

one
two
three four

Answer 1

Look at Apache Commons Lang:

org.apache.commons.lang.text.StrTokenizer should be able to do what you want:

new StringTokenizer("one two \"three four\"", ' ', '"').getTokenArray();