I feel like I'm beating my head against a wall.

In the code below I am trying to create a new "noteLine" if an element in a string array has a length of 45 or greater. However, in addition to this I am needing to create a new "noteLine" for each chunk of 45 chars.

Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.

Here is my code:

public class SplitTestCode {
    public static void main (String args[]) {

        String note = "Case is significant in identifiers in Java, so if and If are considered to be quite different. \n"
            + "The language has a small set of reserved words such as if, while, etc. \n"
            + "They are all sequences of lower-case letters. \n"
            + "The Java language places no restrictions on what names you use for functions, variables, classes, etc. \n"
            + "However, there is a standard naming convention, which all the standard Java libraries follow, and which you must follow in this class.";

        String[] notes = note.split("\n");

        //System.out.println("Notes length is " + notes.length);

        String noteLine = null;

        for (int i = 0; i < notes.length; i++) {
            noteLine = notes[i];
            //System.out.println("Here is my note: " + noteLine + "\n" + "Length of this note: " + notes[i].length());

            do {
                            if (notes[i].length() < 45){
                                noteLine = notes[i].substring(0, notes[i].length()-1);
                                System.out.println("Here is my note: " + noteLine);
                            }
                            else{
                                noteLine = notes[i].substring(0, 45);
                                if (notes[i].length() > 45) {
                                    noteLine = notes[i].substring(45, notes[i].length()-1);
                                }else{
                                    noteLine = null;
                                }
                                System.out.println("Here is my note: " + noteLine);
                            }
            }while (notes[i] != null);
        }
    }
}

if I understand you right, this will help you. Maybe the code is not the most effective one, but it works :)

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class SplitTestCode {
    public static void main (String args[]) {
      String noteElem;
      ArrayList newNotes = new ArrayList();
      String note = "Case is significant in identifiers in Java, so if and If are considered to be quite different. \n"
          +
          "The language has a small set of reserved words such as if, while, etc. \n"
          + "They are all sequences of lower-case letters. \n"
          + "The Java language places no restrictions on what names you use for functions, variables, classes, etc. \n"
          + "However, there is a standard naming convention, which all the standard Java libraries follow, and which you must follow in this class.";
      ArrayList notes = new ArrayList();
      String[] noteToAdd = note.split("\n");
      for (int i = 0; i < noteToAdd.length; i++) {
        notes.add(noteToAdd[i]);

      }

       String noteLine = null;

      for (int i = 0; i < notes.size(); i++) {
        noteElem = (String) notes.get(i);

        if (noteElem.length() == 45) {
            newNotes.add(noteElem);
          }
        else
        if (noteElem.length() > 45) {

          noteLine = (String) notes.get(i);
          newNotes.add(noteElem);
          notes.add(noteLine.substring(0, 45));
          notes.add(noteLine.substring(45, noteLine.length()));

        }

      }
      for (int i = 0; i < newNotes.size(); i++) {
      System.out.println(newNotes.get(i));
      System.out.println(((String) newNotes.get(i)).length());

      }
    }
}

Thanks so much for the help. I'll give it a try.

Regards.