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

This happens because the split method takes a regular expression, not a plain string.

The '*' character means match the previous character zero or more times, thus it is not valid to specify it on its own.

So it should be escaped, like following

split("\\*")