Separate string by tab characters

Question

I have a text file that is tab-delimited. How can I separate this string into substrings for an array by detecting the tabs?

Answer 1

If you use String.split() you can split the String around any regular expression, including tabs. The regex that matches tabs is \t, so you could use the following example;

String foo = "Hello\tWorld";
String[] bar = foo.split("\t");

Which would return a String array containing the words Hello and World