String class provides split() method to split String in
Java, based upon any delimiter, e.g. comma, colon, space or any arbitrary
method. split() method splits string based on
delimiter provided, and return a String
array, which contains individual Strings. Actually, split() method
takes a regular
expression, which in simplest case can be a single word. split() is also overloaded
method in java.lang.String class and its overloaded version
takes a limit parameter which is used to control how many times pattern will be
applied during splitting process. if this limit is positive n, then pattern
will be applied at most n-1 times, if it's negative or zero than split
operation is applied any number of time. For example, if we split String "First,Second,Third" on comma
and provide limit as 2 then pattern will run one time, and split() will
return String array with 2 Strings, "First" and "Second,Third". Since this
method accepts a Java regular expression, it throws PatternSyntaxException, if syntax
of regular expression is invalid.
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