Using split Function in java with delimiter as '|' character(OR symbol)

Question

Here If I am given a string aaaa|bbb, I want output as aaaa and bbb. If I use string.split("|") It returns each character of the string as separate Array of strings like

output[0]="a",output[1]="a",output[2]="a",output[3]="a",output[4]="a",output[5]="|",output[6]="b",output[&]="b",output[0]="b"

But I want it as output[0]=aaaa, output[1]=bbb;

Please help me

Answer 1

You need to escape the | metacharacter:

string.split("\\|")

Answer 2

split() expects a regex, where | has a special meaning and you need to escape it.

string.split("\\|")

Answer 3

Use proper escaping: string.split("\\|") or the helper function which has been created for exactly this purpose: string.split(Regexp.quote("|"))