Question

I have a string in format /remove_this/I_want_this_onward/any_number_of_characters.
I want to remove /remove_this and want to get remaining string i.e. /I_want_this_onward/any_number_of_characters.
Ex. Input String /myApp/home/welcome , I want to extract /home/welcome.
What will be the the easiest way in Java to get it done ?

EDIT: (extracted from comments)

I want it to extract /home/welcome from redirect:/myapp/home/welcome.

Answer 1

Assuming your comment in Daniel’s answer is the last word, I’m guessing you wish to find the second forward slash, and copy the remaining characters.

Here’s my attempt.

int pos = s.indexOf("/");
s.substring(s.indexOf("/", pos+1));

if you wish to find the third forward slash, you’d add the following line in between the two lines of code above:

pos = s.indexOf("/", pos+1);

if you wish to find the fourth, fifth, sixth, etc. forward slash, you would put the above statement in a WHILE loop, in between the two lines of code above.