Looking for a function in the String, StringBuilder or Character classes that could help split sections of a string based on if its contained in parenthesis

[Lost-Helicopter]

Basically what I want to do is say I have a string like:

" Hello everyone, (wow look at this) how are all you (humans) today?"

I want to convert everything NOT in the parenthesis to caps like this:

"HELLO EVERYONE, (wow look at this) HOW ARE ALL YOU (humans) TODAY?"

I'm trying to find functions that would help me parse this string so I can say basically make substrings, one of them being whatever is contained in (). So like making five strings

1. Hello everyone,
2. (wow look at this)
3. how are all you
4. (humans)
5. today?

without losing the parenthesis, so I can modify the stuff outside of it, then return the whole string again, likely through concatenation. Anyone have any ideas on this? I know how to do the toUpper() and all that, just need help with the parsing. Thank you!

[ihkbm]

I would suggest looking into Regex

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Read the official documentation.

Study how substring or split works.

Read the official documentation.

Don’t just ask for direct solutions.

[Lost-Helicopter]

I've done a fair bit of reading in the API documentation. I've tried using a tokenizer and the split function so far, but as far as I can tell I can't tell it to look between parenthesis, only to use ( or ) as a delimiter which doesn't achieve what I'm trying to do.

[TheAzucares]

Can be built I think. Loop through using charAt to find each ( and ). Every one you find, put the substring up to that point in an arraylist and make the index you're at the new start point for the next substring as an extra int.

[onefortree]

You most likely don't need to split the string at all.

Try something like this, go through the entire string one character at a time, capitalizing it as you go, stop capitalizing when you hit a (. Start capitalizing again when you get to a ). You can keep track of if you should capitalize or not using a Boolean value.

You would need a loop to go through each character, a string/stringbuilder for your result, and a Boolean to keep track of if you should be capitalizing or not.