Splitting String in Java with empty elements

Question

I\'m reading from a .csv File line by line. One line could look for example as following: String str = \"10,1,,,,\".

Now I would like to split according to

Answer 1

Pass -1 (or any negative number, actually) as a second parameter to split:

System.out.println("0,,,,,".split(",", -1).length); // Prints 6.