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

Using Guava's Splitter class:

Iterable split = Splitter.on(':').split("value1:value2::value3");

Splitter does not omit empty results by default, though you can make one that does. Though it seems from what others are saying that what you're doing should work as well.