question: protected String [ ] initPathsFromProperties ( String rawPaths ) { String [ ] retPaths = null ; if ( rawPaths != null ) { try { StringTokenizer token = new StringTokenizer ( rawPaths , File . pathSeparator ) ; int numPaths = token . countTokens ( ) ; retPaths = new String [ numPaths ] ; for ( int i = 0 ; i < numPaths ; i ++ ) { retPaths [ i ] = token . nextToken ( ) ; } return retPaths ; } catch ( java . util . NoSuchElementException e ) { e . printStackTrace ( ) ; } } return retPaths ; }
target:  Takes a String of File.separator separated paths, and returns an array of strings instead.