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

When using JDK8 and streams, just add a skip(1) after the split. Following sniped decodes a (very wired) hex encoded string.

Arrays.asList("\\x42\\x41\\x53\\x45\\x36\\x34".split("\\\\x"))
    .stream()
    .skip(1) // <- ignore the first empty element
    .map(c->""+(char)Integer.parseInt(c, 16))
    .collect(Collectors.joining())