Split text file into Strings on empty line

Question

I want to read a local txt file and read the text in this file. After that i want to split this whole text into Strings like in the example below .

Example : Lets say

Answer 1

It may depend on how the file is encoded, so I would likely do the following:

String.split("(\\n\\r|\\n|\\r){2}");

Some text files encode newlines as "\n\r" while others may be simply "\n". Two new lines in a row means you have an empty line.