String split question using “*”

Question

Let\'s say have a string...

String myString =  \"my*big*string*needs*parsing\";

All I want is to get an split the string into \"my\" , \"bi

Answer 1

One escape \ will not do the trick in Java 6 on Mac OSX, as \ is reserved for \b \t \n \f \r \'\" and \\. What you have seems to work for me:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    String myString =  "my*big*string*needs*parsing";
    String[] a = myString.split("\\*");
    for (String b : a) {
        System.out.println(b);
    }
}

outputs:

my
big
string
needs
parsing