Split string with | separator in java

Question

I have a string that\'s like this: 1|\"value\"|;

I want to split that string and have chosen | as the separator.

My code looks like

Answer 1

This is a generic method you can use for this purpose. It will handle any delimiter.
Pattern.quote does the magic.

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;

public static String[] split(String strToSplit, String delimiter) {
    if (StringUtils.isBlank(strToSplit)) {
        return new String[] {};
    } else if (StringUtils.isBlank(delimiter)) {
        return new String[] { strToSplit };
    }

    return strToSplit.split(Pattern.quote(delimiter));
}

In your example:

String[] separated = split(line, "|");