Replace first occurrence of character in Android/Java?

Question

I would like to take the 's' out of http.

 https://joy.tothewor.ld/today/and/tommorrow

 http://joy.tothewor.ld/today/and/tommorrow

What's the fastest/less expensive way?

substring, string builder, something newer in Android's SDK?

Answer 1

String.replaceFirst will do the job.

String output = input.replaceFirst("s","");