serialize a list of string and deserialize it

import java.util.*;
public class combineStrings{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
                String[] arr = {"abc%cde", "a#aa", "haha"};
                for(String s : arr) {
                        System.out.println(s);
                }
                String result = serialize(arr);
                System.out.println(result);
                String[] newArr = deserialize(result);
                for(String s : newArr) {
                        System.out.println(s);
                }
        }
        public static String serialize(String[] arr) {
                StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
                sb.append(arr.length + "#");
                for (String s : arr) {
                        sb.append(s.length() + "%");
                }
                for (String s : arr) {
                        sb.append(s);
                }
                return sb.toString();
        }
        public static String[] deserialize(String s) {
                String[] sizeAndContent = s.split("#");
                //could be splitting to 2
                int len = Integer.parseInt(sizeAndContent[0]);
                s = s.substring(sizeAndContent[0].length()+1);
                String[] eachSize = s.split("%");
                int[] size = new int[len];
                int total = 0;
                for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
                        size[i] = Integer.parseInt(eachSize[i]);
                        total += size[i];
                }
                String content = s.substring(s.length() - total, s.length());
                String[] result = new String[len];
                for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
                        result[i] = content.substring(0, size[i]);
                        content = content.substring(size[i]);
                }
                return result;
        }
}