How to remove characters from String Value?

Question

I am storing below number as a string. How can I remove the first three characters & last one character from the string?

String No = "00098000002208";

What have you tried? See the substring method of String class. — Kartik
– Kartik, Commented May 9, 2019 at 4:43

Tim Biegeleisen · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-09 04:45:05Z

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The easiest and probably fastest way would be to just use the base string function substring:

String input = "00034000004409";
String output = input.substring(3, input.length()-1);

We could also try doing a regex replacement:

String output = input.replaceAll("^.{3}(.*).$", "$1");

answered May 9, 2019 at 4:43

Tim Biegeleisen

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