Java: What is the easiest way to get entire URL except last part?

Question

consider the url is

http://www.google.com/a/b/myendpoint

All I want is the following

http://www.google.com/a/b/

One approach is to split the String url and join all the components except last one.

I am thinking if there could be a better way?

Answer 1

You can use lastIndexOf():

url.substring(0, url.lastIndexOf('/') + 1)

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String url = "http://www.google.com/a/b/myendpoint";
System.out.println(url.substring(0, url.lastIndexOf('/') + 1));

http://www.google.com/a/b/