Get the unqualified name of a class in Java

Description

The following code shows how to get the unqualified name of a class.

Example


//from  w  w w . j ava 2 s  . c  om
public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {

    Class cls = java.util.Map.Entry.class;
    String name = cls.getName();
    System.out.println(name);
    
    if (name.lastIndexOf('.') > 0) {
      name = name.substring(name.lastIndexOf('.') + 1); // Map$Entry
      System.out.println(name);
      name = name.replace('$', '.');      // Map.Entry
      System.out.println(name);
    }
  }
}

The code above generates the following result.





















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