problem splitting strings

hello all,

i have a string of the format similar to this:

anycharactergoeshere;;;;;

and i'm trying to split the string on semicolons with:

foo.split("(;)");

and i have tried numerous other regular expressions with numerous quantifiers but none will seem to split on just the first semicolon, instead it takes them all of them at once.....

ideally i would like to split them and the following in a String array after splitting

someArray[0] == "anycharactergoeshere;"

someArray[1] == ";;;;;"

where the number of semicolons is arbitrary. any help is appreciated.

[624 byte] By [BigCdaAnswer3a] at [2007-10-2 15:48:15]