Please... Explain the following code...

Question

public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String a[] = "76.88.".split("\\.",-1);
System.out.println(a.length);
}
}

// The Output is 3 but How ?

Answer 1

"\\." dot as delimiter
-1 "the pattern will be applied as many times as possible"

"76.88." -> {"76", "88",""}

Answer 2

ok now i am starting to understand...