Remove part of string in Java

Question

I want to remove a part of string from one character, that is:

Source string:

manchester united (with nice players)

Target string:

Answer 1

I would at first split the original string into an array of String with a token " (" and the String at position 0 of the output array is what you would like to have.

String[] output = originalString.split(" (");

String result = output[0];