2 ways to Split String with Dot (.) in Java using Regular Expression

You can use the split() method of java.lang.String class to split a String based on the dot. Unlike comma, colon, or whitespace, a dot is not a common delimiter to join String, and that's why beginner often struggles to split a String by dot. One more reason for this struggle is the dot being a special character in the regular expression. If you want to split String on the dot you need to escape dot as \\. instead of just passing "." to  the split() method. Alternatively, you can also use the regular expression [.] to split the String by a dot in Java. The dot is mostly used to get the file extension as shown in our example. The logic and method are exactly same as earlier examples of split string on space and split the string on a comma, the only difference is the regular expression. Once you know how to write the regular expression, all these examples will be same for you. Java's regular expression is inspired by Perl.

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