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The trick is to use a look-behind with the regex \G, which means "end of previous match": String[] parts = str.split("(?<=\\G.{8})"); The regex matches 8 characters after the end of the last match. Since in this case the match is zero-width, we could more simply say "...

Same as the known length example, but insert the length into regex: int length = 5; String[] parts = str.split("(?<=\\G.{" + length + "})");