Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * Copyright 2001-2006 The Apache Software Foundation. * * 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 { public static String stripStart(String str, String stripChars) { int strLen; if (str == null || (strLen = str.length()) == 0) { return str; } int start = 0; if (stripChars == null) { while ((start != strLen) && Character.isWhitespace(str.charAt(start))) { start++; } } else if (stripChars.length() == 0) { return str; } else { while ((start != strLen) && (stripChars.indexOf(str.charAt(start)) != -1)) { start++; } } return str.substring(start); } public static int indexOf(String str, String searchStr) { if (str == null || searchStr == null) { return -1; } return str.indexOf(searchStr); } }