[Solved] String split does not pick up the trailing /ending empty string

For example, you have a string:
      String str = "You are,indeed,very,very beautiful!, ......,,,,";

Then you use the split method to get all the tokens.

      String [] tokens = str.split(",");

You expect this: {"You are", "indeed", "very",  "very beautiful!", " ......", "", "," "", ""}
But you get this: {"You are", "indeed", "very",  "very beautiful!, " ......"}

The String split("<delimiter>") method, removes the trailing empty strings from the result by default. To include these empty trailing strings in the result array, you need to use its overloaded form, split("<delimiter>", <a negative integer>) or split("<delimiter>", Integer.MAX_VALUE).

      String[] tokens = str.split(",", -1);

will give you the array you expect.

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