String split on multiple regex

[Harry Steinke]

I have some text that I wish to parse but there are 2 different characters (, and |) I want to parse it on
ex. some text, with | extra , things in it
Is there a way to do this split once or would I have to do 2 separate splits

String[] split = s.split(",");
String[] split2 = split.split("\\|");

[Joel McNary]

See Regualr Expressions. Since the split method takes a regular expression, you can say:

String[] split = s.split(",|\\|");

Which means:

Split the string on the ',' or '|' characters. (Note that the vertical pipe is the OR operator in regular expressions.)

[Harry Steinke]

That did it.
Thanks