How do I use System.getProperty(“line.separator”).toString()?

Question

I have a Tab-delimited String (representing a table) that is passed to my method. When I print it to the command line, it appears like a table with rows:

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Answer 1

I think your problem is that String.split() treats its argument as a regex, and regexes treat newlines specially. You may need to explicitly create a regex object to pass to split() (there is another overload of it) and configure that regex to allow newlines by passing MULTILINE in the flags param of Pattern.compile(). Docs