split() throws PatternsyntaxException

[naveen yadav]

hi ranchers,

i have a String of a location like "dir\\filename" .I want to separate the directory name from file name for which i use the following code

String name = "webroot\\log.txt";
String[] pp = name.split("\\");

But it throws PatternsyntaxException. why ? it seems to me that split() having a problem with "\\".

[Matthew Brown]

\ is a special character in Java string literals and in regular expressions. Which means you have to escape it twice!

[naveen yadav]

bingo !!
thanks Matthew Brown

[Wendy L Gibbons]

you could also consider using FILE, that has loads of methods to do this sort of stuff.