Remove first and last character of a string in Java

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to remove the first and last character of a string in Java.

Using the substring() method

To remove the first and last character of a string, we can use the substring() method by passing 1 as a first argument and string.length()-1 as the second argument in Java.

Here is an example, which removes the first character h and last character o from the following string:

String str = "hello";

System.out.println(str.substring(1,str.length() - 1));

Output:

ell

In the example above, the extraction starts from index 1 and ends before the last index (that is string.length()-1).