Question

passing 0 as a limit argument prevents trailing empty strings, but how does one prevent leading empty strings?

for instance

String[] test = "/Test/Stuff".split("/");

results in an array with “”, “Test”, “Stuff”.

Yeah, I know I could roll my own Tokenizer… but the API docs for StringTokenizer say

“StringTokenizer is a legacy class that is retained for compatibility
reasons although its use is discouraged in new code. It is recommended
that anyone seeking this functionality use the split”

Answer 1

Your best bet is probably just to strip out any leading delimiter:

String input = "/Test/Stuff";
String[] test = input.replaceFirst("^/", "").split("/");

You can make it more generic by putting it in a method:

public String[] mySplit(final String input, final String delim)
{
    return input.replaceFirst("^" + delim, "").split(delim);
}

String[] test = mySplit("/Test/Stuff", "/");