java - Strange String.split(" ") behavior

Question

I have a .txt text file, containing some lines.. I load the contain using the RequestBuilder object, and split the responseText with words = String.split(" "); but i wonder, why the result is contains the " " part.. For example, my text:

abc
def
ghi

the result is,

words[0] = "abc
"
words[1] = "def
"
words[2] = "ghi
"

Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try using string.split("\n+"). Or even better - split("[\r\n]+")