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

Use a negative limit in your split statement:

String str = "val1:val2::val3";
String[] st = str.split(":", -1);
for (int i = 0; i< st.length; i++)
    System.out.println(st[i]);

Results:

val1
val2

val3