Transform a sequence of text in a Java String Array

When your input text sound like:

oil sunflowerse    tonn   march    said  tender  import  trader   egypt     may

than you will get the following String Array:

{"oil", "sunflowerse", "tonn", "march", "said", "tender", "import", "trader", "egypt", "may"}

by using this sed script:

sed 's/^ *//; s/ *$//; s/ \{1,\}/ /g; s/ /\", \"/g; s/^/{"/; s/$/"}/' filename

It performs this tasks:

• Remove all multiple spaces at the start


• Remove all multiple spaces at the end


• Remove all multiple spaces between the words


• Replace all single spaces with ", "


• Add {" at the start


• Add "} at the end