Java - Splitting String

Asked May 21 '21 at 10:55

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I'm trying to split a date string in the format of day.month.year

The code i'm using is

String[] dates = date.split(".");

For the input string "24.05.21" i'd expect to get a dates.length of 3, but i'm getting 0

Full code

System.out.println("codesList:" + codesList.get(0));
            String date = codesList.get(0).replace("Codes ", "");
            System.out.println("Date:" + date);
            String[] dates = date.split("."); // day . month . year
            System.out.println("Dates:" + dates.length);

codesList:Codes 24.05.21

Date:24.05.21

Dates:0

asked May 21 '21 at 10:55

Ceri Turner

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`split` expects a regex. `.` means any character. Escape it like `\\.`. – Federico klez Culloca May 21 '21 at 10:56
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Do you have to use `String.split(...)` or would you accept something else, like parsing the date `String` instead of splitting it? – deHaar May 21 '21 at 10:57

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