How to remove all type of prefix salutation from string in java?

Question

Suppose I have string coming from Input with name (for eg: Mr . Aditya Jha). How do I remove salutation from the start of input?

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Answer 1

You may use

name = name.replaceAll("\\s{2,}", " ").replaceFirst("(?i)^\\s*(?:M(?:iss|rs?|s)|Dr|Rev)\\b[\\s.]*", "").trim();

See the regex demo

Pattern details

• (?i) - case ignoring option
• ^ - start of string
• \s* - 0+ whitespaces
• (?:M(?:iss|rs?|s)|Dr|Rev) - M followed with iss, r, rs, s, or Dr or Rev (you may add more after | here)
• \b - word boundary
• [\s.]* - 0 or more whitespaces or dots.