Split a string containing command-line parameters into a String[] in Java

Here is a pretty easy alternative for splitting a text line from a file into an argument vector so that you can feed it into your options parser:

This is the solution:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    String myArgs[] = Commandline.translateCommandline("-a hello -b world -c \"Hello world\"");
    for (String arg:myArgs)
        System.out.println(arg);
}

The magic class Commandline is part of ant. So you either have to put ant on the classpath or just take the Commandline class as the used method is static.