Question

I have a string like |serialNo|checkDelta?|checkFuture?|checkThis?|.

Now I am using the following code to split the string.

String[] splitString = str.split("|");

but when I use this I get array of string that contains each and every character, whereas I need string which contains letter like serialNo, checkDelta?, checkFuture?, checkthis?.

How to get these? Am I missing something?

Answer 1

You’ll have to escape your pipe character (split takes a regular expression as argument and therefore “|” is a control character):

str.split("\\|");

Please note: the resulting array contains an empty string at the beginning since you have “|” at start of your string.