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Ophelia
Ophelia

Reputation: 569

Java Error in String Split

I want my program to accept search strings, for example: blue & berry (to find both of the words) bed | sleep | pillow(to find first one or the second one etc) When i recieve these string into my program, i use String.split() With "&" or "|" as separator. 

String[] splited = input.split("|");

It works fine in the first case, but in the second case in separates each letter in the words, for example: b e d. Can i do something for it to be separated by words with this symbol, not just splited letter by letter?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 343

Answers (2)

James
James

Reputation: 195

String.split(String) uses regular expressions and | is a special character in regex. Use \| to refer to a literal |, and \\ to escape the \ for Java. Resulting in \\|.

Upvotes: 3

Florent Bayle
Florent Bayle

Reputation: 11910

split() is taking a regexp as argument. | means or, so you are splitting on "empty string or empty string", so it's splitting after every letter. If you want to split on "|" symbol, you have to escape it:

String[] splited = input.split("\\|");

Upvotes: 5

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