How to remove all String text before equals ('=') sign Java

Question

I\'d like to parse a string so I can build an XML document.

I have:

String value = \"path=/Some/Xpath/Here\";

I\'ve parsed it this way

Answer 1

Just do replace before splitting.

String[] tokens = s.replaceFirst(".*=", "").split("/");

This would give you an empty element at first because it would do splitting on the first forward slash after replacing.

or

String[] tokens = s.replaceFirst(".*=/", "").split("/");

But if you remove all the chars upto the = along with the first forward slash will give you the desired output.