Splitting strings through regular expressions by punctuation and whitespace etc in java

Question

I have this text file that I read into a Java application and then count the words in it line by line. Right now I am splitting the lines into words by a

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Answer 1

Well, seeing you want to count can't as two words , try

split("\\b\\w+?\\b")

http://www.regular-expressions.info/wordboundaries.html