Using regex to split the words in String but not symbol

Question

Is it possible to use regex to split by words instead of symbol/special characters?

For instance, It is fun, content=[I love java, content=[Java eclipse then split by content=[

So the results will become like

It is fun

I love java

Java eclipse

I tried something like this but it have error that say HTTP Status 500 - illegal repetition near index

String [] strArray = testcontent.split("content=[");
                    for (String str :strArray) {
                    System.out.println("TestSplit" + str);

Your problem is to escape special characters, check my answer and let me know if works (I tested in Scala) — Carlos Verdes, Oct 25 '16 at 05:42
Possible duplicate of [How to split a string in Java](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3481828/how-to-split-a-string-in-java) — AxelH, Oct 25 '16 at 06:10

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 25 '16 at 05:58

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Split accepts a regexp so you can use whatever expression you want, just be careful to escape special characters.

split("content\\=\\[")

or

 split(Pattern.quote("content=["))

edited Oct 25 '16 at 05:58

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answered Oct 25 '16 at 05:41

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Or if you don't want to play around with backslashes, `split(Pattern.quote("content=["))`, [according to this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/6065932/1270789). – Ken Y-N Oct 25 '16 at 05:46
Thanks @KenY-N I didn't know that!! – Carlos Verdes Oct 25 '16 at 05:47
Thank you, it worked. Sorry so how do I split SolrDocument{content=[? Is it something like this? split(" SolrDocument\ \{\ \content\ \=\ \[ ") @Carlos – Have a lot of question Oct 25 '16 at 05:49
Thank you so much too, just one more question. Is it possible to forward the String to JSP using getAttribute and printed out in JSP? @KenY-N – Have a lot of question Oct 25 '16 at 05:52
@Havealotofquestion I think you should read about regexp, when you want to check different patterns you can use |, for example split("content|SolrDocument"). – Carlos Verdes Oct 25 '16 at 05:59
Thank you will read more as I am new to this and java too. Hmm, one more question when I printed on the console it did show the split but why it only display one results when I forward the String to JSP using getAttribute method @CarlosVerdes – Have a lot of question Oct 25 '16 at 06:08
I think you should open another question for this ,) If you like my answer please mark as resolver :) – Carlos Verdes Oct 25 '16 at 08:35

Using regex to split the words in String but not symbol

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