Remove leading and trailing brackets in a String

Question

In Java, I want to get rid of the leading and trailing brackets in a String.
Given input:

"[ hello, char[]={a,b,c} ... bye ]"

How can I produce the output of

" hello, char[]={a,b,c} ... bye "

only the leading [ and trailing ] is removed... How can I do that in Java?

Answer 1

String i = "[ hello, char[]={a,b,c} ... bye ]";

int indexOfOpenBracket = i.indexOf("[");
int indexOfLastBracket = i.lastIndexOf("]");

System.out.println(i.substring(indexOfOpenBracket+1, indexOfLastBracket));

Prints:

 hello, char[]={a,b,c} ... bye