Is there a Java equivalent to Python's Easy String Splicing?

Question

Ok, what I want to know is is there a way with Java to do what Python can do below...

string_sample = \"hello world\"

string_sample[:-1]
>>> \"hell         


        

Answer 1

Apache commons-lang has some support for this in StringUtils:

Gets a substring from the specified String avoiding exceptions.

A negative start position can be used to start n characters from the end of the String

You'll still have to use an explicit start index though.