question: public static String [ ] toQuotedAndCommaSeparatedArray ( String str ) throws IOException { LinkedList < String > values = new LinkedList < String > ( ) ; StreamTokenizer tt = new StreamTokenizer ( new StringReader ( str ) ) ; tt . wordChars ( 'a' , 'z' ) ; tt . wordChars ( 'A' , 'Z' ) ; tt . wordChars ( 128 + 32 , 255 ) ; tt . whitespaceChars ( 0 , ' ' ) ; tt . quoteChar ( '"' ) ; tt . quoteChar ( '\'' ) ; while ( tt . nextToken ( ) != StreamTokenizer . TT_EOF ) { switch ( tt . ttype ) { case StreamTokenizer . TT_WORD : case '"' : case '\'' : values . add ( tt . sval ) ; break ; } } return values . toArray ( new String [ values . size ( ) ] ) ; }
target:  Returns a value as a String array. The values are separated by commas with optional quotes and white space.