On Apr 17, 12:10 pm, sciflu...@gmail.com wrote:

String[] splitLine = input.split(",\\{"); // regex engine gets ",\{"

On Apr 16, 8:10 pm, sciflu...@gmail.com wrote:

"\n" create a string with a newline, not a \ and then an n
"\\n" create a string with a single slash, and then an n.
The regex engine needs to parse a string, and it thinks that { is a
special charactor.
To tell the regex enginer that you want the literal {, you have to put
a \ before it in the string.
To get the \ before it in the string, you have to tell the Java
compiler to espace the \
Therefore what you want is "\\{".

Hope this verbose explaination helps cement the concept :-)

Daniel.