Problem using java String.split() method

Question

Hi all, I have a problem regarding the usage of java regular expressions. I want to use the String.split() method to tokenize a string of text. Now the problem is that the delimiter which is to be used is determined only at runtime and it can itself be a string, and may contain the characters like *, ?, + etc. which are treated as regular expression constructs.
Is there a way to tell the regular expression that it should not treat certain characters as quantifiers but the whole string should be treated as a delimiter? I know one solution is to use the StringTokenizer class but it's a legacy class & its use is not recommended in Javadocs. So, does there exist a way to get the above functionality using regular expressions.
Please do respond if anyone has any idea. Thanx
Hamid

Answer 1

public class StringSplit {
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{
new StringSplit().doit();
public void doit() {
String s3 = "Dear <TitleNo> ABC Letter Details";
String[] temp = s3.split("<>");
dump(temp);
public void dump(String []s) {
System.out.println("------------");
for (int i = 0 ; i < s.length ; i++) {
System.out.println(s);
System.out.println("------------");
Want to extract only string between <>
for example to extract <TitleNo> only.
any suggestions please ?