Java – breaks a string into two at a hyphen

I get the string variable from the request

String issueField = request.getParameter("issueno");

This may or may not have a hyphen in the middle I want to be able to traverse the string and split it when I see hyphens

Solution

Use string #split:

String[] parts = issueField.split("-");

Then you can use parts [0] to get the first part, the second part [1]