Question

I have a string like 1264$LP@$JOHN TAYLOR VS NJ Traffic$LP@$0$LP@$. I want to split this string with $LP@$ as a delimiter but this contains L (in TAYLOR) so while it should return

1264
JOHN TAYLOR VS NJ Traffic
0

it is giving like

1264
JOHN TAY
OR VS NJ Traffic
0

Could anybody help me? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The $ symbol is special character in regular expression. You need to escape it using ‘\’.

String input = "1264$LP@$JOHN TAYLOR VS NJ Traffic$LP@$0$LP@$";
String []pieces = input.split("\\$LP\\@\\$");

for(int i=0;i < pieces.length;i++)
  System.out.println(pieces[i]);

Output is
1264
JOHN TAYLOR VS NJ Traffic
0