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Here is a real simple question for someone simple minded as I am.
How do you get the first character of a string?
.substring(0) ???
or
.substring(1)???
I want to extract the first two
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Bart
You want to use the substring method of the String class.
From the API:


Returns a new string that is a substring of this string. The substring begins at the specified beginIndex and extends to the character at index endIndex - 1. Thus the length of the substring is endIndex-beginIndex.


so in your case to get the first two letters of a string your code would look like this:

Then the String firstTwo would contain the first two letters of the String yourString.
hope that helped


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Alternately, if you want a 'character', then you need the charAt(int index) function.
firstLetter should contain the character 'a'

So to answer the 'unasked' question, Strings are ZERO based, just like C-style strings, which are zero-based arrays of chars.

If, for whatever reason, you want a C-style char array from a java String, there is a method toCharArray()

And as a last comment Bart, you're not simple minded. You just don't know certain things yet. Which is why places like JavaRanch are pretty cool.
[This message has been edited by Mike Curwen (edited September 06, 2001).]
 
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