How to separate specific elements in string java

Question

Example of what I want to do:
If you pass in \"abc|xyz\" as the first argument and \"|\" as the second argument the method returns List(\"abc

Answer 1

Try using the split method:

return Arrays.asList(string.split("\\|"));

The two backslashes are there because split accepts a regex, and | is a special character in regexes. Also, backslash is a special character in Java strings. So the first backslash escapes the second one, which escapes the |.

Arrays.asList will convert the array returned by split to a list.