You must use:
String [] temp = s.split("\\|");
This is because the split
method takes a regular expression, and |
is one of the special characters. It means 'or'. That means you are splitting by '' or ''
, which is just ''
. Therefore it will split between every character.
You need two slashes because the first one is for escaping the actual \
in the string, since \
is Java's escape character in a string. Java understands the string like "\|
", and the regex then understands it like "|
".