how to split a string by character in java code example

Example 1: java how to split a string into letters

//Java program to show the use of Split method (Java 8 and above)
public class SplitString{

  public static void main(String[] args) 
  {
    //Initialize the String which needs to be split
    String str = "Enlighter";
    
    //Use the Split method and store the array of Strings returned in a String array.
    String[] arr = str.split("");
    
    //Printing the characters using for-each loop
    for(String character : arr)
      System.out.print(char);

Example 2: split on . in java

String textfile = "ReadMe.txt";
String filename = textfile.split("\\.")[0];
String extension = textfile.split("\\.")[1];