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JSTL fn:split() Function

In this tutorial you will learn about the JSTL fn split function.

JSTL split Function returns the array of String after splitting the target string with specified separator.

Sometimes it is required to split the string into a various part. For this JSTL function Library provides a function named split() that splits the string using a delimiter. This function splits a string into an array of string.

Syntax:
The fn:split() function has following syntax:

java.lang.String[] split(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)

JST Split Function Example-

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>JSTL Split Function Example</title>
</head>
<body>
  <c:set var="array1" value="${fn:split('Hi My name is Dinesh', ' ')}">
</body>
</html>

Output: [Hi,My,name,is,Dinesh]

As you can see above, fn:split() takes a String as input parametes and returns the array of String after splitting it based on separator specified in 2nd parameter.

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Dinesh Rajput

Dinesh Rajput is the chief editor of a website Dineshonjava, a technical blog dedicated to the Spring and Java technologies. It has a series of articles related to Java technologies. Dinesh has been a Spring enthusiast since 2008 and is a Pivotal Certified Spring Professional, an author of a book Spring 5 Design Pattern, and a blogger. He has more than 10 years of experience with different aspects of Spring and Java design and development. His core expertise lies in the latest version of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, creating REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Reactive Pattern, Spring AOP, Design Patterns, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services, Spring Batch, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Web Application Design and Architecture. He is currently working as a technology manager at a leading product and web development company. He worked as a developer and tech lead at the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd and was the first developer in his previous company, Paytm. Dinesh is passionate about the latest Java technologies and loves to write technical blogs related to it. He is a very active member of the Java and Spring community on different forums. When it comes to the Spring Framework and Java, Dinesh tops the list!