Split Whole 

Apache Commons Lang 3.0 is a java library with lot of utilities and reusable components. This requires the library commons-lang3-3.0.1.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows using StringUtils.splitByWholeSeparator() API. It splits the given string into array of tokens using specified separator string.

File Name  :   com/bethecoder/tutorials/commons_lang/tests/strings/SplitWholeTest.java  Author  :   Sudhakar KV Email  :   [email protected]

package com.bethecoder.tutorials.commons_lang.tests.strings; import java.util.Arrays; import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils; public class SplitWholeTest {   /**    * @param args    */   public static void main(String[] args) {           String [] tokens = StringUtils.splitByWholeSeparator(null, "@@@");     System.out.println(Arrays.toString(tokens));          tokens = StringUtils.splitByWholeSeparator("user@@@pwd@@@key", "@@@");     System.out.println(Arrays.toString(tokens));          tokens = StringUtils.splitByWholeSeparator("user@@@pwd@@@key", "@@");     System.out.println(Arrays.toString(tokens));          tokens = StringUtils.splitByWholeSeparator("a+-+b+-+c+-+d", "+-+");     System.out.println(Arrays.toString(tokens));     tokens = StringUtils.splitByWholeSeparator("a:b:c:d", ":");     System.out.println(Arrays.toString(tokens));   } }

null
[user, pwd, key]
[user, @pwd, @key]
[a, b, c, d]
[a, b, c, d]