Split a String in java using delimeters

[help_desk]

Hello guys,

I have a String as follows: "the|boy|is|good"

now, I want to split this string using the "|" delimeter.

I tried this :

String line = "the|boy|is|good";
line.split("|");

but it didn't split it. Is there some regex for "|"?
Anyone willing to help out here?

[GregBrannon]

Why not post a runnable example?

Quite often, if you're using a Java special character in quotes, you need to escape it with '\'. To add to the complication, you also need to "escape the escape," so that the result is:

String[] lineSplit = line.split("\\|");

As I suggested above, here's a runnable example:

public class TestClass
{ 
    public static void main(String[] args)
    { 
        String line = "the|boy|is|good";
        String[] lineSplit = line.split("\\|");
 
        for ( String string : lineSplit )
        {
            System.out.println( string );
        }
    }
}