Split the string on forward slash

Question

I have a code which I wanted to split based on the forward slash \"/\".

Whenever I have a regex split based on \"////\" it never splits and gives me the whole string

Answer 1

Java might return a null pointer so you need to wrap this with a try catch

try {
        String[] temp = imageFilenameOriginal.split("/");

    } catch (Exception ex){
        errorMessage = ex.getMessage();
    }

The compiler is much happier this way.

Answer 2

There is no need to escape forward slashes. Your code works fine if you just do:

String[] paths = path.split("/");

Answer 3

String[] paths = path.split("\\");

Answer 4

i wanted to check validation of input date in the format dd/mm/yyyy so need to split my string around / You can do it simply by:

String spl[]=str.split("/");
int date=Integer.parseInt(spl[0]);
int month=Integer.parseInt(spl[1]);
int year=Integer.parseInt(spl[2]);