Splitting a string at every n-th character

Java does not provide very full-featured splitting utilities, so the Guava libraries do:

Iterable<String> pieces = Splitter.fixedLength(3).split(string);

Check out the Javadoc for Splitter; it's very powerful.

You could do it like this:

String s = "1234567890";
System.out.println(java.util.Arrays.toString(s.split("(?<=\\G...)")));

which produces:

[123, 456, 789, 0]

The regex (?<=\G...) matches an empty string that has the last match (\G) followed by three characters (...) before it ((?<= ))

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        for (String part : getParts("foobarspam", 3)) {
            System.out.println(part);
        }
    }
    private static List<String> getParts(String string, int partitionSize) {
        List<String> parts = new ArrayList<String>();
        int len = string.length();
        for (int i=0; i<len; i+=partitionSize)
        {
            parts.add(string.substring(i, Math.min(len, i + partitionSize)));
        }
        return parts;
    }
}