Java split string on empty delimiter returns empty string at the beginning

Question

Below is the String I want to split into single characters: 

"abcd".split("");

This is the output I get: ["", "a", "b", "c", "d"]

I get this empty delimiter at the limiter. Can anyone tell me what’s the reason behind it? 

Answer 1

The better way to go about this would be, use String.toCharArray() which will give an array of characters. 

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