Splitting a String in Java with underscore as delimiter

Question

I have the following String (This format for the string is generic)

abc_2012-10-18-05-37-23_prasad_hv_Complete

I want to extract only

Answer 1

You can use a regex to extract the data:

String input = "abc_2012-10-18-05-37-23_prasad_hv_Complete";
String output = input.replaceAll("(?i)^[a-z]+_[^_]+_(\\w+)_[a-z]+$", "$1");