diff --git a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/pattern/PathPattern.java b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/pattern/PathPattern.java
index 11b80df19c..d3a5a5d0d7 100644
--- a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/pattern/PathPattern.java
+++ b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/pattern/PathPattern.java
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ public class PathPattern implements Comparable<PathPattern> {
 					}
 				}
 			}
-			resultPath = PathContainer.parsePath(buf.toString());
+			resultPath = PathContainer.parsePath(buf.toString(), String.valueOf(this.separator));
 		}
 		else if (startIndex >= endIndex) {
 			resultPath = PathContainer.parsePath("");
diff --git a/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/util/pattern/PathPatternTests.java b/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/util/pattern/PathPatternTests.java
index 2337f01be7..02782c5221 100644
--- a/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/util/pattern/PathPatternTests.java
+++ b/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/util/pattern/PathPatternTests.java
@@ -707,6 +707,17 @@ public class PathPatternTests {
 		checkExtractPathWithinPattern("/", "//", "");
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void extractPathWithinPatternCustomSeparator() {
+		PathPatternParser ppp = new PathPatternParser();
+		ppp.setSeparator('.');
+		PathPattern pp = ppp.parse("test.**");
+		PathContainer pathContainer = PathContainer.parsePath("test.projects..spring-framework", ".");
+		PathContainer result = pp.extractPathWithinPattern(pathContainer);
+		assertThat(result.value()).isEqualTo("projects.spring-framework");
+		assertThat(result.elements()).hasSize(3);
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	public void extractUriTemplateVariables_spr15264() {
 		PathPattern pp;