Help with regex. How to escape "|"

Hi, this is my code:
String line = "00001740 00 a 01 able 0 003 = 04866033 n 0000 = 05262099 n 0000 ! 00002062 a 0101 | (usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something; "able to swim"; "she was able to program her computer"; "we were at last able to buy a car"; "able to get a grant for the project" ";
//I want to capture with group(0) only the first half og the line, that preceeding "|".
//Could anyone help me figure out why this piece of code does not work ?
String patternStr = "(.*?)|(.*?)";
    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(patternStr);
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(line);
    boolean matchFound = matcher.find();
    if (matchFound){
         relLine = (String)matcher.group(0);
         System.out.println("LINE " + relLine);
         } else {
        System.out.println("ATTENTION MATCH WAS NOT FOUND FOR LINE " + line);
              }

"\\|"You need to use the backslash.
However, since backslash is also a special character in a Java String literal, you need two of them. The first one gets eaten by the compiler, escaping the second one, which is used by regex to escape the pipe.

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