String.substring vs String[].split

Question

I have a comma delaminated string that when calling String.split(\",\") it returns an array size of about 60. In a specific use case I only need to get the valu

Answer 1

You are certainly better off doing it by hand for two reasons:

• .split() takes a string as an argument, but this string is interpreted as a Pattern, and for your use case Pattern is costly;
• as you say, you only need the second element: the algorithm to grab that second element is simple enough to do by hand.