Thread: Splitting operators

I am wondering why this code works on C# but not on Java?
It gives me an error in split function that it can only take strings
Should I change the separators to String
so it will be like this

            String separators = " .,:\t"

            char[] separators = { '  ', ',', '.', ':', '\t' };
            String[] words;
            words = value.split(separators);   //Value is a string passed inside this function

The program basically takes a name like, "Mr. John Doe" and it will ignore the . and white space

Splits a string into parts based on a regex and stores it into an String array. The regex is a string used to determine where to split the bigger string. For example, to extract individual words from a sentence, a space would be used as a regex.

Do you have the whole program to this task? I can see where and how it might be used, but don't know exactly what class files or packages are imported.