Splitting a String - Java Program

In many applications you get data in a text file which is either separated using a pipe (|) symbol or a tab symbol (/t). Now, if you want to do a quick split around that separating symbol you can easily do it using split() method which is in the String class itself.

• Refer Splitting a String using split() method in Java to read in detail about split() method.

In this post we’ll see how to split a String using split() method -

Splitting pipe delimited data - Example code

public class SplitDemo {

 public static void main(String[] args) {
  String str = "E001|Ram|IT|India|";
  // splitting
  String[] rec = str.split("\\|");
  System.out.println("" + rec[3]);
 }
}

Output

India

Points to note

1. Since pipe (|) is also used in conditions like OR (||) so that is a special symbol and needs to be escaped.
2. split() method returns the array of strings computed by splitting this string around matches of the given regular expression.

Splitting tab delimited data – Example code

You can use the following code snippet if you are splitting tab delimited data.

String str = "E001 Ram IT India";
// splitting
String[] recArr = str.split("\t");
for(String rec : recArr){
 System.out.println("" + rec);
}

Output

 E001
 Ram
 IT
 India

Splitting dot delimited data – Example code

You can use the following code snippet if you are splitting dot (.) delimited data. Note that . Has to be escaped as it is a special symbol.

String str = "E001.Ram.IT.India";
// splitting
String[] recArr = str.split("\\.");
for(String rec : recArr){
 System.out.println("" + rec);
}

Output

 E001
 Ram
 IT
 India

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