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John Peter
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Custom Left and Right Method of String manipulation in Java Example
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String Class substring method is used to parse the string using staring index and end index.

substring(starting index,ending index)

Left: left string has to specify 0 as starting index. and number of characters should be ending index.
Right: right string has to specify (length - number of characters) as starting index and number of characters is the ending index.
CustomLeftRightMethodExample
public class CustomLeftRightMethodExample {
    public static String left(String data,int no_of_chars){
        if (data.length() > no_of_chars)
            return data.substring(0, no_of_chars);
        else
            return data;
    }
    public static String right(String data,int no_of_chars){
        if (data.length() > no_of_chars)
            return data.substring(data.length()-no_of_chars, data.length());
        else
            return data;
    }
    
    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{    
        System.out.println(left("Parthasarathy",3));
        System.out.println(right("Parthasarathy",3));
    }
}
Output 
Par
thy
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