title: String split question using "*"
body: <p>Let's say have a string...</p>
  
  <pre><code>String myString =  "my*big*string*needs*parsing";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>All I want is to get an split the string into "my" , "big" , "string", etc.
  So I try</p>
  
  <pre><code>myString.split("*");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>returns 
  java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Dangling meta character '*' near index 0</p>
  
  <p><code>*</code> is a special character in regex so I try escaping....</p>
  
  <pre><code>myString.split("\\*");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>same exception.  I figured someone would know a quick solution.  Thanks.</p>