String split not returning empty results

Question

I\'m trying to use

\"value1:value2::value3\".split(\":\");

Problem is that I want it to include the blank results.

It returns:

Answer 1

split does include empty matches in the result, have a look at the docs here. However, by default, trailing empty strings (those at the end of the array) are discarded. If you want to include these as well, try split(":", -1).