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remove query parameter with java string operations

I have a simple problem and yet to find the optimal solution.

Imagine I have a url with a query param named 'id' like any of the following formats

I'm taking the above string (could be any one above) as a String parameter and want to figure out the simplest way to remove the query parameter id (name and value), so that even after removing, it will be a valid url.

Below are my expected outputs (in order).

Can anyone have a good idea? (only with String operations, without any util classes)

Solution

  • You can use replaceAll which is using regex like so :

    String[] urls = new String[]{
    "xxxxxxxxxxxxx?id=123", "xxxxxxxxxxxxx?id=123&xxxxxxxx", 
    "xxxxxxxxxxxxx?xxxxxx&id=123", "xxxxxxxxxxxxx?xxxxxx&id=123&xxxxx"
};
for (String url : urls) {
    System.out.println(
            url.replaceAll("([\\?&]id=\\d+$)|(id=\\d+&)", "")
    );
}

    Output

    xxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxx?xxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxx?xxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxx?xxxxxx&xxxxx

    Demo

    Regex demo

    Details

    this regex ([\?&]id=\d+$)|(id=\d+&) mean to match :

    If you the input after id= can be other than a digit you can use \w instead which match \w word character which can match any character in [A-Za-z0-9_]