Why does the split(regex) method in Java discard the desired part of the string?

Question

Java

Hello!
Please help me understand what's going on.
There is a string from a .csv file.
There is a word in a cell, followed by several empty cells. I wanted to split the string into parts and get ALL the cells in the array.
I use split(regex), but part of the string is lost.

String s = ";;;;;;;word;;;;;;;;";
    String[] ss = s.split(";");
    System.out.println(ss.length);

output - length 8
Although the string is larger than the characters ";" also more.
split cuts off everything after the word "word"
If I move the word further, the length of the array will increase

{
  public static void main (String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception
  {
    // your code goes here
    String s = ";;;;;;;;;;;;;;;word";
    String[] ss = s.split(";");
    System.out.println(ss.length);
  }

At the output, the length of the array is 16.
Please tell me what's wrong, or indicate the direction for the proceedings.
Thank you very much.

Answer 1

This is "normal behavior" - empty end pieces are discarded.
If you need everything - use
s.split(";", -1)