Divide a string into two at hyphen

Question

I am taking a String variable from request.

String issueField = request.getParameter("issueno");

This may or may not have a hyphen in the middle. I want to be able to traverse through the String and divide the string when hyphen is seen.

Answer 1

Use String#split:

String[] parts = issueField.split("-");

Then you can use parts[0] to get the first part, parts[1] for the second, ...