public class RegularExpressionDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { String text = "abcdebcadxbc"; String[] tokens = text.split(".bc"); for(String token : tokens) { System.out.print(token + " "); } System.out.println(); tokens = text.split("..cd"); for(String token : tokens) { System.out.print(token + " "); } System.out.println(); } }