Split Java String by New Line

Question

I\'m trying to split text in a JTextArea using a regex to split the String by \\n However, this does not work and I also tried by \\r\\n|\\r|

Answer 1

If, for some reason, you don't want to use String.split (for example, because of regular expressions) and you want to use functional programming on Java 8 or newer:

List lines = new BufferedReader(new StringReader(string))
        .lines()
        .collect(Collectors.toList());