java - split string at index

Question

How would I split a string at a particular index? e.g split string at index 10, making the string now equal to everything up to index 10 and then dumping the remainder.

Answer 1

What about substring(0,10) or substring(0,11) depending on whether index 10 should inclusive or not? You'd have to check for length() >= index though.

An alternative would be org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils.substring("your string", 0, 10);