extracting int from string

Hi im tryin to extract int values from a StringBuffer looking something like this for instance:
"|5|56|789|4|21"
would this code work?
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//Buff is the StringBuffer where the string is stored

int start=0;
int end=0;
int invalues[]=new int[5];
for(int i=0; i<invalues.length; i++) {
start=buff.indexOf("|",start);
end=buff.indexOf("|",start);
String mini=buff.substring((start+1),end);
int convInt= new Integer(mini).intValue();
invalues[i]=convInt;

}


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Why dont you just use StringTokenizer???

because i dont know how to use it and im in a hurry!
however my question was if the code i wrote would work properly and i would apriciate if someone would correct it

First, why are you askin if this code would work? Just test it.

Well, I just played a littlebit with your code and thats my result



Note that I have added an | at the end of the buffer to prevent a -1 for the last value of end.
I guess you ar using Java 1.4 because you are using StringBuffer.indexOf so why don't you String.split ?

Have a nice day,
FReAK

heh , i was in a hurry too , for something similar ...
it took about 5 minutes through a book , thanks a lot pixel

O.k., you said you're in a hurry, but if you instead want to use StringTokenizer, try this: