string - Trim characters in Java

Question

How can I trim characters in Java?
e.g.

String j = “joejill”.Trim(new char[] {“”});

j should be

"joejill"

String j = “jackjoejill”.Trim("jack");

j should be

"joejill"

etc

Answer 1

Apache Commons has a great StringUtils class (org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils). In StringUtils there is a strip(String, String) method that will do what you want.

I highly recommend using Apache Commons anyway, especially the Collections and Lang libraries.