Issue with splitting Java String by regex

Asked Dec 03 '15 at 07:48

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guys! I've got a URL in which I want to encode every character but slashes "/". I've tried to use String.split() function, but it doesn't work as I'd like it to:

String url1 = "/images";
String url2 = "/images/";

url1.split("/"); // gives me {"", "images"}
url2.split("/"); // gives me the same array {"", "images"}, when I expect {"", "images", ""}

How can I get {"", "images", ""} array for string like "/images/" ? Maybe I need to use another regex?

asked Dec 03 '15 at 07:48

Anatolii Stepaniuk

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use `split("/",-1)` to get trailing empty strings. but you should rather use the build ins for URL´s if you are trying to parse them. – SomeJavaGuy Dec 03 '15 at 07:49
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See explanation [here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/34041861/3832970). – Wiktor Stribiżew Dec 03 '15 at 07:53

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