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

I think you shall have to manually remove the first empty string. A simple way to do that is this -

  String string, subString;
  int index;
  String[] test;

  string = "/Test/Stuff";
  index  = string.indexOf("/");
  subString = string.substring(index+1);

  test = subString.split("/"); 

This will exclude the leading empty string.