Question

Having read the documentation of Java’s String class, it doesn’t appear to support popping from front(which does make sense since it’s basically a char array). Is there an easy way to do something like

String firstLetter = someString.popFront();

which would remove the first character from the string and return it?

Answer 1

A String in Java is immutable, so you can’t “remove” characters from it.

You can use substring to get parts of the String.

String firstLetter = someString.substring(0, 1);
someString = someString.substring(1);