Regex Q - gotta be something obvious

[kjkrum]

SSCCE:

public class SplitEscape {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		String string = (char) 27 + "[1;32m";
		String[] split = string.split("[^0-9]+");
		System.out.printf("The resulting array has %d elements.\n", split.length);
	}

}

The output is 3 elements, "", "1", and "32". I expected 2 elements, "1" and "32". What gives?

[Fubarable]

What is the motivation driving this? What is your ultimate goal with this code?

[kjkrum]

NM - found the answer on StackOverflow. This is just how it is when there's a leading delimiter.

An inefficient but simple solution:

input.replaceFirst("^"+regex, "").split(regex);

[DarrylBurke]

ANSI escape sequences, in this day and age?

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