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StringTokenizer
StreamTokenizer

Just as you would like to format output data (using the Format family, or the printf family), you may also have a need to read in formatted input data.

There are two classes that are useful for this:

(Package java.util)

Object
    StringTokenizer

(Package java.io)

Object
    StreamTokenizer

While they don't provide full parsing capabilities they are still extremely useful.

If you really would like to do some more serious parsing in Java, see http://java-source.net/open-source/parser-generators for how to find more capable parsers, such as ANTLR, JavaCC, and CUP, etc.