Pattern for Guava Splitter

Question

I need to split String by comma or dot or backslach :

Pattern stringPattern = Pattern.compile("\\s+|,|\\\\|");
Splitter.on(stringPattern).omitEmptyStrings().split(description));

but this pattern don't work , what is wrong ?

Answer 1

The correct regex for comma or dot or backslash is [.,\\], so in Java that's

Pattern.compile("[.,\\\\]")

I do like Olivier's suggestion of CharMatcher though.