Android String Strip stripSuffix(String str, String suffix)

Description

Give me a string and a potential suffix, and I return the string before the suffix if the suffix matches, else null.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
str	the string to strip
suffix	the expected suffix

Return

the stripped string or null if the string does not end with the suffix

Declaration

public static String stripSuffix(String str, String suffix)

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**//from  w  w w .  ja  v a  2s.  c  o m
 * Copyright (c) 2000, Google Inc.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

public class Main {
    /**
     * Give me a string and a potential suffix, and I return the string
     * before the suffix if the suffix matches, else null.
     * Analogous to the c++ function strsuffix.
     *
     * @param str the string to strip
     * @param suffix the expected suffix
     * @return the stripped string or <code>null</code> if the string
     * does not end with the suffix
     */
    public static String stripSuffix(String str, String suffix) {
        return str.endsWith(suffix) ? str.substring(0, str.length()
                - suffix.length()) : null;
    }
}