Split String to String[] by a period but returning an empty array
arrays, floating-point, java, split, string
Solution
split uses regular expressions, in which "." means match any character. you need to do
"\\."
EDIT: fixed, thanks commenter&editor
Problem
Ok maybe i just need a second pair of eyes on this. I have a float, that I turn into a string. I then want to split it by its period/decimal in order to present it as a currency. Heres my code: ``` float price = new Float("3.76545"); String itemsPrice = "" + price; if (itemsPrice.contains(".")){ String[] breakByDecimal = itemsPrice.split("."); System.out.println(itemsPrice + "||" + breakByDecimal.length); if (breakByDecimal[1].length() > 2){ itemsPrice = breakByDecimal[0] + "." + breakByDecimal[1].substring(0, 2); } else if (breakByDecimal[1].length() == 1){ itemsPrice = breakByDecimal[0] + "." + breakByDecimal[1] + "0"; } } ``` If you take this and run it, you will get an array index out of bounds error on line 6 (in the code above) regarding there being nothing after a decimal. In fact on line 5, when i print out the size of the array, it's 0. These are to ridiculous of errors for them to NOT be something i am simply overlooking. Like I said, another pair of eyes is exactly what i need, so please don't be rude when pointing out something that's obvious to you but I overlooked it. Thanks in advance!