Splitting a stream with more than one consequtive delimiter including pipe [duplicate]

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Spliting a stream containing "&|&" as delimiter

I have a stream containing more than one element and using the following separator "&|&"

String user="White, John&|&false&|&true";

I try to create an array:

final String[] elementFilters = user.split("&|&");

but it take the both pipes as one of the array elements.

I get the following elements:

elementFilters[0]="White, John";

elementFilters[1]="|";

elementFilters[2]="false";

elementFilters[3]="|";

elementFilters[4]="true";

but I just require 4 elements and pipe should not be elements of the array. Any idea?