I need help in trimming a string url.
Let's say the String is http://myurl.com/users/232222232/pageid
What i would like returned would be /232222232/pageid
Now the 'myurl.com' can change but the /users/ will always be the same.
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5 Answers
I suggest you use substring and indexOf("/users/").
String url = "http://myurl.com/users/232222232/pageid";
String lastPart = url.substring(url.indexOf("/users/") + 6);
System.out.println(lastPart); // prints "/232222232/pageid"
A slightly more sophisticated variant would be to let the URL class parse the url for you:
URL url = new URL("http://myurl.com/users/232222232/pageid");
String lastPart = url.getPath().substring(6);
System.out.println(lastPart); // prints "/232222232/pageid"
And, a third approach, using regular expressions:
String url = "http://myurl.com/users/232222232/pageid";
String lastPart = url.replaceAll(".*/users", "");
System.out.println(lastPart); // prints "/232222232/pageid"
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user979587
this one is great because it just cuts from the start of the string.
string.replaceAll(".*/users(/.*/.*)", "$1");
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Garrett Hall
True, it is not necessary, but I think capturing groups are more understandable in terms of knowing what you are getting.
String rest = url.substring(url.indexOf("/users/") + 6);
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Xavi López
The OP wants to keep the last slash from
/users/.You can use split(String regex,int limit) which will split the string around the pattern in regex at most limit times, so...
String url="http://myurl.com/users/232222232/pageid";
String[] parts=url.split("/users",1);
//parts={"http://myurl.com","/232222232/pageid"}
String rest=parts[1];
//rest="/232222232/pageid"
The limit is there to prevent strings like "http://myurl.com/users/232222232/users/pageid" giving answers like "/232222232".
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aioobe
I would add a limit argument (
1) to that split function.You can use String.indexOf() and String.substring() in order to achieve this:
String pattern = "/users/";
String url = "http://myurl.com/users/232222232/pageid";
System.out.println(url.substring(url.indexOf(pattern)+pattern.length()-1);