Recovering the string split by string.split() in Java

Question

I have a string "I love A. I hate B". If I split it by using

 string.split("\\p{Punct}") 

I will get two strings where string1 will be "I love A" and string2 will be "I hate B". Please note that in place of "." I may also have any of the other punctuation characters. How can I recover the exact string as it was before the splitting operation with the correct punctuation character.

Answer 1

Keep a reference to the string - if you can have any punct, you can't guess what you had before