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Thread: Java .split not working?

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    Default Java .split not working?

    First of all, hello! I am new here, and I come with a very newbish question. For some reason, this decided not to work, and I spent a couple of hours trying to realize why, and I just can't manage to.
    Here is the code:
    import java.io.BufferedReader;
    import java.io.FileReader;
    import java.io.IOException;
    import java.util.ArrayList;
     
    public class Learn {
     
    	public static void readFile(String file) {
    		String[] arr;
    		BufferedReader br = null;
    		ArrayList<String> str = new ArrayList<String>();
    		try {
    			String currentLine;
    			br = new BufferedReader (new FileReader(file));
    			while((currentLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
    				if(currentLine.contains(".")) {
    					arr = currentLine.split(".");
    					System.out.println(arr.length);
    					for(int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
    						System.out.println(arr[i]);
    						if(!(arr[i].equals("")))
    							str.add(arr[i]);
    					}
    				}
    				for(String st : str) {
    					System.out.println(st);
    				}
    			}
    		}
    		catch(IOException e) {
    			e.printStackTrace();
    		}
    		finally {
    			try {
    				if( br != null )
    					br.close();
    			}
    			catch(IOException e) {
    				e.printStackTrace();
    			}
    		}
    	}
    }

    and the file it is reading is
    This is a test for sentences. This sentence is one.
    This is another
    The curentLine.contains(".") expression evaluates to true, but the code stops there (I mean, just skips the rest). I added that println there, and the output is 0; so basically, something goes wrong in the split().
    Any help is greatly appreciated!
    Thank you for your time!
    Best regards,
    BrreaKer
    Last edited by BrreaKer; March 15th, 2014 at 08:02 AM. Reason: Solved


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    Default Re: Java .split not working?

    The . is a regex special character. Add the escape character: \ to use it as a character. There will need to be two \\s because \ is also a compiler special character.
    If you don't understand my answer, don't ignore it, ask a question.

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    Default Re: Java .split not working?

    See String (Java Platform SE 7 ) for the API of the split method, and Pattern (Java Platform SE 7 ) for regular expression constructs as well as the use of backslashes.

    An alternative to using the split method is to use String's indexOf and substring methods.

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    Thank you! I totally forgot about regex!

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