How to prevent java.lang.String.split() from creating a leading empty string?

Question

passing 0 as a limit argument prevents trailing empty strings, but how does one prevent leading empty strings?

for instance

String[] test =          


        

Answer 1

Apache Commons has a utility method for exactly this: org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils.split

StringUtils.split()

Actually in our company we now prefer using this method for splitting in all our projects.