pipe simple split in java

Question

am getting problem while using split with pipeline.but with other characters it works well.What am doing wrong please help me.

String s =\"H|PONumber1|1|1\";
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Answer 1

The pipe is being treated as a regex special character. Just escape it via \\| and you'll be good. From the javadoc on String.split...

Splits this string around matches of the given regular expression.

If you want to be safe, always pass your text to Pattern.quote(stringToSplitOn);