In this tutorial, you shall learn how to split a given string by single space character as delimiter in Kotlin, using String.split() function, with examples.

Kotlin – Split string by single space character

To split a string by single space character as separator in Kotlin, you can use String.split() function.

Call split() function on the string, and pass the single space character ' ', as argument to the function. The function returns a list of split parts.

Syntax

If str is the given string and the values in it are separated by space character, then the syntax to split this string into a list of values is

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str.split(' ')

Examples

1. Split values in string separated by single space

In the following program, we take a string in str, and split this string into parts with single space character as separator, using String.split() function.

Main.kt

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fun main() {
    val str = "apple banana cherry mango"
    val parts = str.split(' ')
    println(parts)
}

Output

[apple, banana, cherry, mango]

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Conclusion

In this Kotlin Tutorial, we learned how to split a string by a single space character as separator using String.split() function.