String Display problem

[123456]

Hi friends,
I have a long string , and while displaying that string i want to use delimiter, like don't display string after "." is there any way to limit the displaying of our string?

Thanks in Advance

[masijade]

So, don't display the String, but display the result of some String method.

for example, instead of

System.out.println(str);

use

System.out.println(str.replaceFirst("\\..*$", "");

[123456]

thanks for your rply.. but am using one file as a tree DefaultMutableTreeNode and in my tree it is showing a full name of my File with extension, i want to ignore that extension while displaying... so how it is possible?

[masijade]

The principle is the same, but, of course, you also then, need a TreeRenderer, see the swing tutorials.

[Norm]

Create a substring by locating the last . in the String and choosing all the String up to but not including that last ".".