You need to escape the + for the regular expression, using \.
However, Java uses a String parameter to construct regular expressions, which uses \ for its own escape sequences. So you have to escape the \ itself:
"\\+"
You need to escape the + for the regular expression, using \.
However, Java uses a String parameter to construct regular expressions, which uses \ for its own escape sequences. So you have to escape the \ itself:
"\\+"