Groovy/Java split string on parentheses “(”

Question

I am trying to perform a split similar the following:

println \"Hello World(1)\".split(\"W\");

Output:

[Hello , orld(1)]
         


        

Answer 1

The split method takes a regular expression pattern.

If you want to split on "just a regular string" you can use Pattern.quote to quote the string first:

println "Hello World(1)".split(Pattern.quote("("))