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SplitByCurrencySymbol.md

You'll have to escape the currency symbol as it might be a reserved symbol in regex. Plus, splitting doesn't keep the symbol itself so you'll have to add it back manually:

String currency = "$"; // from your method

String escapedCurrency = Pattern.quote(currency);

String[] result = "$5".split(escapedCurrency, 2);
result[0] = currency;

System.out.println(Arrays.toString(result));

Prints [$, 5]

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