Question

I have a string "Foo*#*Bar*#*Foo1*#*Bar1"

I want a regular expression which when used in String.split(String RegularExpression) will return

[0] = "Foo";
[1] = "Bar";
[2] = "Foo1";
[3] = "Bar1";

I tried \*#*\, but it not returning what i wanted.

Answer 1

You need to escape both asterisks:

\*#\*

So in Java you’d do something like this:

String[] str = mystring.split("\\*#\\*"); 

Try Regexr.com for experimenting with regular expressions.