Split Java String by New Line

Question

I'm trying to split text in a JTextArea using a regex to split the String by \n However, this does not work and I also tried by \r\n|\r|n and many other combination of regexes. Code:

public void insertUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
    String split[], docStr = null;
    Document textAreaDoc = (Document)e.getDocument();

    try {
        docStr = textAreaDoc.getText(textAreaDoc.getStartPosition().getOffset(), textAreaDoc.getEndPosition().getOffset());
    } catch (BadLocationException e1) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e1.printStackTrace();
    }

    split = docStr.split("\\n");
}

Answer 1

After failed attempts on the basis of all given solutions. I replace \n with some special word and then split. For me following did the trick:

article = "Alice phoned\n bob.";
article = article.replace("\\n", " NEWLINE ");
String sen [] = article.split(" NEWLINE ");

I couldn't replicate the example given in the question. But, I guess this logic can be applied.