Can you use zero-width matching regex in String split?

Question

System.out.println(
    Arrays.deepToString(
        \"abcghi\".split(\"(?:<)|(?:>)\")
    )
);

This prints [abc, def, ghi]<

Answer 1

Thanks to information from Cine, I think these are the answers I'm looking for:

System.out.println(
    Arrays.deepToString(
        "abcghi".split("(?=<)|(?<=>)")
    )
); // [abc, , ghi, , ]


System.out.println(
    Arrays.deepToString(
        "Hello! Oh my!! Good bye!! IT WORKS!!!".split("(?<=!++)")
    )
); // [Hello!,  Oh my!!,  Good bye!!,  IT WORKS!!!]

Now, the second one was honestly discovered by experimenting with all the different quantifiers. Neither greedy nor reluctant work, but possessive does.

I'm still not sure why.