Java.lang.string(split)

Question

I am trying to split a delimited input record using the Perl equivalent pattern of /\|/. Can someone tell me what that translates too exactly in Java? My guess is "//'\'|//".
Also once I split to an array I would like to pull the contents of each field out individually. The string.split function appears to place the entire record in the array. I am using the following syntax with
the bufferedReader:
String[] RecFields = thisLine.split("//'\'|//");
My understanding was that this would place each field in it's own Array element without saving the delimeter. So that I could retrieve field
number 3 in it's entirety for example by using the syntax:
String strField3 = RecFields[3];
StringTokenizer has already been tried and will not work because of null (empty) values in the string are skipped as Array elements.

Answer 1

That was it!!! It was the actual delimiter string. I thought the extra slashes were an "OR" statement to eliminate duplicate records. I'll have to get this confirmed with Perl though. It's working perfectly now with \\| as the delimiter string. For those of you who are curious it was a 20 field pipe delimited record. Each field hada a variable length. The only records with values in each field all the time were fields 1 & 2, the others can contain null values. However all 20 fields are delimited no matter what value they contain.
Thanks for your help everyone!