How to split string with a specific word contains special characters in it

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For Example : I have a string coming from some Api call like below : And I want to split based on [DART1].

String value = "University[DART1]BUCKKKKK";
String[] splitData = value.split("DART1");
String firstWord = splitData[0].substring(0, splitData[0].length() - 1);
String secondWord = splitData[1].substring(1);

I did a split and removed those special characters from the string, but I was doing lot of operation on string.

Is there a better way of doing this?

just `"\\[DART1]"` should suffice the second `\\\` is redundant. @Thefourthbird — Ousmane D., Sep 24 '19 at 20:10
Possible dupe of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8141698/split-using-a-bracket — The fourth bird, Sep 24 '19 at 20:17

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 24 '19 at 20:12

Split based on "\\[DART1]"

String[] result = value.split("\\[DART1]");

The \\ is required to escape the [ otherwise the compiler would think you want to split on anything that's either D, A, R, T or 1.

Then you can access the individual elements by indexing into the result array.

How to split string with a specific word contains special characters in it

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