// Ivan Novick
// Feb 18, 2008
// split on whitespace ... like using awk

class splitws
{  
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        String input = "This	string contains   both	tabs and spaces";

        // split on white space
        String tokens[] = input.split("\\s+");

        // iterate through the generated array of tokens
        for (int i = 0; i < tokens.length ; ++i)
        {
            System.out.println("Token #" + (i+1) + ": " + tokens[i] + ".");
        }
    }
}