In java how to get substring from a string till a character c?

Question

I have a string (which is basically a file name following a naming convention) abc.def.ghi

I would like to extract the substring before the first

Answer 1

If your project already uses commons-lang, StringUtils provide a nice method for this purpose:

String filename = "abc.def.ghi";

String start = StringUtils.substringBefore(filename, "."); // returns "abc"

see javadoc [2.6] [3.1]