Question

i’ve one text file, and im doing something like this :

resultingTokens = currentLine.split("\\t"); 

file data is tab delimited. But when I parse it with above code, it does not give expected output. I realize that tab is actually editor specific. But how does Java (above code) interprets it?

Answer 1

you are trying to split on \t (literally backslash followed by lower case T) because you’re escaping the backslash. a single backslash with a t will represent a tab.

resultingTokens = currentLine.split("\t"); 

is what will give you the result you were expecting.