How to return part of string before a certain character?

Question

If you look at the jsfiddle from question,

var str = \"Abc: Lorem ipsum sit amet\";
str = str.substring(str.indexOf(\":\") + 1);

This retur

Answer 1

And note that first argument of subString is 0 based while second is one based.

Example:

String str= "0123456";
String sbstr= str.substring(0,5);

Output will be sbstr= 01234 and not sbstr = 012345