How to split a string, but also keep the delimiters?

Question

I have a multiline string which is delimited by a set of different delimiters:

(Text1)(DelimiterA)(Text2)(DelimiterC)(Text3)(DelimiterB)(Text4)

Answer 1

I will post my working versions also(first is really similar to Markus).

public static String[] splitIncludeDelimeter(String regex, String text){
    List list = new LinkedList<>();
    Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile(regex).matcher(text);

    int now, old = 0;
    while(matcher.find()){
        now = matcher.end();
        list.add(text.substring(old, now));
        old = now;
    }

    if(list.size() == 0)
        return new String[]{text};

    //adding rest of a text as last element
    String finalElement = text.substring(old);
    list.add(finalElement);

    return list.toArray(new String[list.size()]);
}

And here is second solution and its round 50% faster than first one:

public static String[] splitIncludeDelimeter2(String regex, String text){
    List list = new LinkedList<>();
    Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile(regex).matcher(text);

    StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
    while(matcher.find()){
        matcher.appendReplacement(stringBuffer, matcher.group());
        list.add(stringBuffer.toString());
        stringBuffer.setLength(0); //clear buffer
    }

    matcher.appendTail(stringBuffer); ///dodajemy reszte  ciagu
    list.add(stringBuffer.toString());

    return list.toArray(new String[list.size()]);
}