Trim leading or trailing characters from a string?

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Brad Parks · Sep 5, 2014 · Viewed 81.7k times · Source

How can I trim the leading or trailing characters from a string in java?

For example, the slash character "/" - I'm not interested in spaces, and am looking to trim either leading or trailing characters at different times.

Answer

You could use

Leading:

System.out.println("//test/me".replaceAll("^/+", ""));

Trailing:

System.out.println("//test/me//".replaceAll("/+$", ""));