regex - Split Java String by New Line

Question

I'm trying to split text in a JTextArea using a regex to split the String by However, this does not work and I also tried by | |n and many other combination of regexes. Code:

public void insertUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
    String split[], docStr = null;
    Document textAreaDoc = (Document)e.getDocument();

    try {
        docStr = textAreaDoc.getText(textAreaDoc.getStartPosition().getOffset(), textAreaDoc.getEndPosition().getOffset());
    } catch (BadLocationException e1) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e1.printStackTrace();
    }

    split = docStr.split("\n");
}

Answer 1

This should cover you:

String lines[] = string.split("\r?\n");

There's only really two newlines (UNIX and Windows) that you need to worry about.