Question

Consider the below String

String names = "Bharath-Vinayak-Harish-Punith"

I want to get output in the form of string it contains only Bharath.
(String up to the first occurrence of “-” operator). Anyone can please tell me, how can be we do this?

Answer 1

In the general case, I agree with the split method in the previous answer, but, when only returning the first string, the substring method is the same amount of work for the programmer (and, for insanely large strings, less computational work):

String result = names.substring(0, names.indexOf('-'))