Split string with | separator in java

Question

I have a string that's like this: 1|"value"|;

I want to split that string and have chosen | as the separator.

My code looks like this:

String[] separated = line.split("|");

What I get is an array that contains all characters as one entry:

separated[0] = ""
separated[1] = "1"
separated[2] = "|"
separated[3] = """
separated[4] = "v"
separated[5] = "a"
...

Does anyone know why?
Can't I split an string with |?

Answer 1

| is treated as an OR in RegEx. So you need to escape it:

String[] separated = line.split("\|");