# How to divide string

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**Category:** Coding Questions\
**Created:** [November 21, 2021, 10:16am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-divide-string/33649 "2021-11-21T10:16:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![MoonAlien822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@MoonAlien822](https://discourse.processing.org/u/MoonAlien822)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 10:16am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-divide-string/33649/1 "2021-11-21T10:16:20Z")

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Let’s say you have a string and the string contains “ab” how could you divide this up into multiple strings, so you would have a string which equals “a” and a string which equals “b”?

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**Author:** ![glv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/glv/32/18785_2.png) [@glv](https://discourse.processing.org/u/glv)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 10:23am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-divide-string/33649/2 "2021-11-21T10:23:23Z")

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Hello,

The answer is here:

> **[Reference](https://processing.org/reference/String.html)**
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> A string is a sequence of characters. The class String includes methods for examining individual characters, comparing strings, searching strings, extracting parts of strings, and for convertin…

`:)`

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**Author:** ![MoonAlien822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@MoonAlien822](https://discourse.processing.org/u/MoonAlien822)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 10:46am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-divide-string/33649/3 "2021-11-21T10:46:57Z")

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I don’t know if I’m just stupid but I checked the article and couldn’t find it.

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**Author:** ![CodeMasterX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/codemasterx/32/2942_2.png) [@CodeMasterX](https://discourse.processing.org/u/CodeMasterX)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 10:57am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-divide-string/33649/4 "2021-11-21T10:57:53Z")

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The closest thing I could think of is this:

> **[Reference](https://processing.org/reference/split_.html)**
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> The split() function breaks a String into pieces using a character or string as the delimiter. The delim parameter specifies the character or characters that mark the boundaries between …

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**Author:** ![MoonAlien822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@MoonAlien822](https://discourse.processing.org/u/MoonAlien822)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 11:38am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-divide-string/33649/5 "2021-11-21T11:38:16Z")

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thank you this worked

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**Author:** ![Chrisir](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/chrisir/32/45_2.png) [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 11:38am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-divide-string/33649/6 "2021-11-21T11:38:42Z")

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You can also use subString

Same page

Or charAt when you always have only 2 letters