How to use special characters & | and ⊕ in the Split() method?

Question

I tried

String text = "1&2⊕3|4";
String[] s = text.split("|⊕&");

And nothing happened, I also tried

String text = "1&2⊕3|4";
String[] s = text.split("\\|\\⊕\\&");

And nothing happened. So, what should I do?

Answer 1

The easiest way is to create a character class by adding brackets:

String text = "1&2⊕3|4";
String[] s = text.split("[|⊕&]");

You can read more about character classes in this excellent tutorial.