Java split() of String | Multiple whitespace characters
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The split method of the String class is very useful when you want to tokenize a string. Its power lies
in the fact that it accepts a string, as a parameter, which can be a regular expression. However you must
be careful when you want to split a string using the whitespace character as a delimiter. Consider the
following snippet of code:
String str = "Testing split using two whitespace characters";
String[] tokens = str.split("\\s");
for(String token : tokens) {
System.out.println("-" + token + "-");
}What’s the output produced by the previous code? If you think it is the following one you’re wrong:
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