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

Apparently even though the velocity documentation says that the delimiter is a string it's really a regular expression. Thanks apache.

proper way is

$product.product.split("\|");