Question

If I have a string of garbage like

this is a sentence that is stackoverflow’s property.

How can I read the string until the apostrophe (or the key I want to set up) is hit so it would return

this is a sentence that is stackoverflow

Answer 1

You just need to find the first index of the character, then return the whole string if it isn’t found or the substring from the start of the string up to (but not including) the index of the character if it is.

int index = string.indexOf('\'');
return index == -1 ? string : string.substring(0, index);