java split () method with two delimiters [duplicate]

Question

I have a string like

abababa:nsndnfnng.leleelld_kdjdh

I want to split it on ":" and ".", so that I get a list as follows:

{abababa, nsndnfnng, eleelld_kdjdh}

how can I do this with calling the split() once?

Answer 1

You are looking for String#split method. Since it accepts regex which will describe delimiter your code could look like

String[] result = yourString.split("[:.]");