A better StringTokenizer

I've just been reminded how painful it can be splitting a string based on a token with StringTokenizer. The problem is that it gets messy when you have two tokens consecutively. Luckily commons-lang comes to the rescue with StrTokenizer - where empty tokens may be removed or returned as null.

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