0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 <- available indexes for substring u n i v E R S i t y ↑ ↑ start end --> range of "E R S" Quoting the docs: The substring begins at the specified beginIndex and extends to the character …

“Substring creates a new object out of source string by taking a portion of original string”. Until Java 1.7, substring holds the reference of the original character array, which means even a sub-string of 5 …

May 31, 2012 · I always thought if I do String s = "Hello World".substring(0, 5), then I just get a new string s = "Hello". This is also documented in the Java API doc: "Returns a new string that is a …

Oct 16, 2013 · It works but I thought that the substring method starts at 0 and goes from there so that substring (0,0) would include just the first letter and likewise substring (0,4) would include 0 1 2 3 4 …

12 You can use Apache commons: For substring after last occurrence use this method. And for substring after first occurrence equivalent method is here.

Oct 29, 2014 · The second example already shows why the choice to use an inclusive start index and an exclusive end index might be a good idea: It's easy to slice out a substring of a certain length, without …

Do you always need first 3 characters then why not set int1 = 0 and int2 = 3? What is the problem actually in doing that? Do you expect the string to be less than 3 characters in cases. Even if length …

Apr 19, 2013 · Strings in Java are immutable. Basically this means that, once you create a string object, you won't be able to modify/change the content of a string. As a result, if you perform any …

Dec 24, 2016 · 5 Answers Sorted by: substring method throws the StringIndexOutOfBoundsException only when the beginIndex is greater than the length of the string as shown in the below code (taken …

I'm just looking for a simple way to be able to extract substrings without using the substring method.