Java String split removed empty values

Question

I am trying to split the Value using a separator. But I am finding the surprising results

String data = \"5|6|7||8|9||\";
String[] split = data.split(\"\\\\|         


        

Answer 1

String[] split = data.split("\\|",-1);

This is not the actual requirement in all the time. The Drawback of above is show below:

Scenerio 1:
When all data are present:
    String data = "5|6|7||8|9|10|";
    String[] split = data.split("\\|");
    String[] splt = data.split("\\|",-1);
    System.out.println(split.length); //output: 7
    System.out.println(splt.length); //output: 8

When data is missing:

Scenerio 2: Data Missing
    String data = "5|6|7||8|||";
    String[] split = data.split("\\|");
    String[] splt = data.split("\\|",-1);
    System.out.println(split.length); //output: 5
    System.out.println(splt.length); //output: 8

Real requirement is length should be 7 although there is data missing. Because there are cases such as when I need to insert in database or something else. We can achieve this by using below approach.

    String data = "5|6|7||8|||";
    String[] split = data.split("\\|");
    String[] splt = data.replaceAll("\\|$","").split("\\|",-1);
    System.out.println(split.length); //output: 5
    System.out.println(splt.length); //output:7

What I've done here is, I'm removing "|" pipe at the end and then splitting the String. If you have "," as a seperator then you need to add ",$" inside replaceAll.