Java: Split string when an uppercase letter is found

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You may use a regexp with zero-width positive lookahead – it finds uppercase letters but doesn’t include them into delimiter:

String s = "thisIsMyString";
String[] r = s.split("(?=\\p{Upper})");

Y(?=X) matches Y followed by X, but doesn’t include X into match. So (?=\\p{Upper}) matches an empty sequence followed by a uppercase letter, and split uses it as a delimiter.

See javadoc for more info on Java regexp syntax.

EDIT: By the way, it doesn’t work with thisIsMyÜberString. For non-ASCII uppercase letters you need a Unicode uppercase character class instead of POSIX one:

String[] r = s.split("(?=\\p{Lu})");

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