Java (Regex?) split string between number/letter combination

Question

I\'ve been looking through pages and pages of Google results but haven\'t come across anything that could help me.

What I\'m trying to do is split a string like

Answer 1

Try this

String s = "Bananas22Apples496Pears3";

String[] res = s.replaceAll("(?<=\\p{L})(?=\\d)", ":").split("(?<=\\d)(?=\\p{L})");
    for (String t : res) {
        System.out.println(t);
    }

The first step would be to replace the empty string with a ":", when on the left is a letter with the lookbehind assertion (?<=\\p{L}) and on the right is a digit, with the lookahead assertion (?=\\d).

Then split the result, when on the left is a digit and on the right is a letter.

\\p{L} is a Unicode property that matches every letter in every language.