Split Strings in java by words

Question

How can I split the following word in to an array

That\'s the code

into

array
0 That
1 s
2 the
3 code

I tried

Answer 1

split uses regex and in regex ' is not special character so you don't need to escape it with \. To represent whitespaces you can use \s (which in String needs to be written as "\\s"). Also to create set of characters you can use "OR" operator | like a|b|c|d, or just use character class [abcd] which means exactly the same as (a|b|c|d).

To makes things simple you can use

String[] strs = str.split("'| ");

or

String[] strs = str.split("'|\\s");//to include all whitespaces

or

String[] strs = str.split("['\\s]");//equivalent of "'|\\s"