Split string with | separator in java

Question

I have a string that\'s like this: 1|\"value\"|;

I want to split that string and have chosen | as the separator.

My code looks like

Answer 1

The parameter to split method is a regex, as you can read here. Since | has a special meaning in regular expressions, you need to escape it. The code then looks like this (as others have shown already):

String[] separated = line.split("\\|");

Answer 2

| means OR in regex, you should escape it. What's more, a single '\', you get '\|' means nothing in Java string. So you should also escape the '\' itself, which yields '\|'.

Good luck!

Answer 3

you can replace the pipe with another character like '#' before spliting, try this

String[] seperated = line.replace('|','#').split("#");

Answer 4

This is a generic method you can use for this purpose. It will handle any delimiter.
Pattern.quote does the magic.

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;

public static String[] split(String strToSplit, String delimiter) {
    if (StringUtils.isBlank(strToSplit)) {
        return new String[] {};
    } else if (StringUtils.isBlank(delimiter)) {
        return new String[] { strToSplit };
    }

    return strToSplit.split(Pattern.quote(delimiter));
}

In your example:

String[] separated = split(line, "|");

Answer 5

Try this: String[] separated = line.split("\\|");

My answer is better. I corrected the spelling of "separated" :)

Also, the reason this works? | means "OR" in regex. You need to escape it.

Answer 6

Escape the pipe. It works.

String.split("\\|");

The pipe is a special character in regex meaning OR