String.split(“.”) is not splitting my long String

Question

I\'m doing the following:

String test = \"this is a. example\";
String[] test2 = test.split(\".\");

the problem: test2 has no

Answer 1

The dot . is special regex character. It means match any. You need to escape the character, which in Java is done with \\.

Once it is escaped, it won't be treated as special and will be matched just like any other character.

So String[] test2 = test.split("\\."); should do the trick nicely!