This used to work fine. I'm using eclipse and it's NOT telling me there is a problem with using these methods. I can even compile fine with ant but whenever I actually run the code I get a java ...

The String.split method is not limited to splitting on a single character. In the next example, I use the three characters of the Groovy Spaceship Operator (<=>) as the token (and it works fine).

The Java example that uses String.split(String) on a more limited basis (supplying ” ” to the method rather than s+ works the same way but splits on only single space (” “) rather than on ...