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String currentString = "Fruit: they taste good";

String[] separated = currentString.split(":");

separated[0]; // this will contain "Fruit"

separated[1]; // this will contain " they taste good"

You may want to remove the space to the second String:

separated[1] = separated[1].trim();

If you want to split the string with a special character like dot(.) you should use escape character \ before the dot

Example:

String currentString = "Fruit: they taste good.very nice actually";

String[] separated = currentString.split("\\.");

separated[0]; // this will contain "Fruit: they taste good"

separated[1]; // this will contain "very nice actually"

There are other ways to do it. For instance, you can use the StringTokenizer class (from java.util):

StringTokenizer tokens = new StringTokenizer(currentString, ":");

String first = tokens.nextToken();// this will contain "Fruit"

String second = tokens.nextToken();// this will contain " they taste good"

// in the case above I assumed the string has always that syntax (foo: bar)

// but you may want to check if there are tokens or not using the hasMoreTokens method