Does Hive have a String split function?

Question

I am looking for a in-built String split function in Hive? e.g. if String is:

A|B|C|D|E

Then I want to have a function like:

Answer 1

Just a clarification on the answer given by Bkkbrad.

I tried this suggestion and it did not work for me.

For example,

split('aa|bb','\\|')

produced:

["","a","a","|","b","b",""]

But,

split('aa|bb','[|]')

produced the desired result:

["aa","bb"]

Including the metacharacter '|' inside the square brackets causes it to be interpreted literally, as intended, rather than as a metacharacter.

For elaboration of this behaviour of regexp, see: http://www.regular-expressions.info/charclass.html