Does Hive have a String split function?

Question

I am looking for a in-built String split function in Hive? e.g. if String is:

A|B|C|D|E

Then I want to have a function like:

Answer 1

Another interesting usecase for split in Hive is when, for example, a column ipname in the table has a value "abc11.def.ghft.com" and you want to pull "abc11" out:

SELECT split(ipname,'[\.]')[0] FROM tablename;