Using velocity split() to split a string into an array doesnt seem to work

Question

I HATE velocity and rarely ever use it but sometimes I am called upon at my job to do so. I can never really figure out just how to use it.

I have this

Answer 1

Without using StringUtils this can be done using the String split() method.

Unlike it's Java counterpart for special characters one doesn't need to escape the forward slash (.e.g "\\|") as @kamcknig correctly stated:

#set ($myString = “This|is|my|dummy|text”) 

#set ($myArray = $myString.split("\|")) or
#set ($myArray = $myString.split('\|')) or
#set ($myArray = $myString.split("[|]"))

Note 1: To get the size of the array use: $myArray.size()

Note 2: To get actual values use $myArray.get(0) or $myArray[0] … etc

Suggestion: one could use beforehand #if ($myString.indexOf(‘|’)) ... #end