String split to specified length

public static String[] slice(String str, int maxLength)
{
Pattern p = Pattern.compile(".{1," + maxLength + "}");
Matcher m = p.matcher(str);
List result = new ArrayList();
while (m.find())
{
result.add(m.group());
}
return result.toArray(new String[result.size()]);
}

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