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

The other responders are correct that split() takes a regex as the argument, so you'll have to fix that first. The other problem is that you're assuming that the line break characters are the same as the system default. Depending on where the data is coming from, and where the program is running, this assumption may not be correct.