<p>Suppose I have following string:</p>

<pre><code>String asd = "this is test ass this is test"
</code></pre>

<p>and I want to split the string using "ass" character sequence.</p>

<p>I used:</p>

<pre><code>asd.split("ass");
</code></pre>

<p>It doesn't work. What do I need to do?</p>

It seems to work fine for me:
```
```
public class Test
{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String asd = "this is test ass this is test";
        String[] bits = asd.split("ass");
        for (String bit : bits) {
            System.out.println("'" + bit + "'");
        }
    }
}
```
```
Result:
```
```
'this is test '
' this is test'
```
```
Is your real delimiter different perhaps? Don't forget that split uses its parameter as a regular expression...