Question

Suppose I have a binary file that has this content:

abc\0def\0ghi\0

The content is already read and stored in a string variable s. How should I extract the components “abc”, “def”, “ghi” into different string tokens? The usual methods such as split, stringTokenizer do not accept \0 as delimiter.

Answer 1

\0 is the null character, so you can use its unicode representation as a delimiter.

String content = "abc\0def\0ghi\0";
String[] components = content.split("\u0000");

However, you can use just “\0” as the delimiter to split on.