Split the string on forward slash

Question

I have a code which I wanted to split based on the forward slash "/".

Whenever I have a regex split based on "////" it never splits and gives me the whole string back. I tried replacing with file separator which gives "\" and then splitting with "\\" works but not the below code.

Below is the code tested

package org.saurav.simpletests.string;  import java.io.File;  public class StringManipulator {      public static void main(String a[]){         String testString ="/UserId/XCode/deep";          //testString = testString.replace("/", File.separator);         //testString = testString.replace("/", "_");         testSplitStrings(testString);     }      /**      * Test the split string      * @param path      */     public static void testSplitStrings(String path){         System.out.println("splitting of sprint starts \n");         String[] paths = path.split("////");         for (int i = 0; i < paths.length; i++) {             System.out.println("paths::"+i+" "+paths[i]+"\n");         }         System.out.println("splitting of sprint ends");     } } 

cheers, Saurav

Answer 1

There is no need to escape forward slashes. Your code works fine if you just do:

String[] paths = path.split("/"); 

Answer 2

i wanted to check validation of input date in the format dd/mm/yyyy so need to split my string around / You can do it simply by:

String spl[]=str.split("/"); int date=Integer.parseInt(spl[0]); int month=Integer.parseInt(spl[1]); int year=Integer.parseInt(spl[2]);