text between delimiters extraction snippet

Author: Mcbencrafter

snippets/java/string-manipulation/extract-text-between-delimiters.md

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+---
+title: Extract Text Between Delimiters
+description: Extracts a text between two given delimiters from a string
+author: Mcbencrafter
+tags: string,delimiters,start,end
+---
+
+```java
+public static String extractBetweenDelimiters(String text, String start, String end) {
+    int startIndex = text.indexOf(start);
+    int endIndex = text.indexOf(end, startIndex + start.length());
+    
+    if (startIndex == -1 || endIndex == -1)
+        return "";
+    
+    return text.substring(startIndex + start.length(), endIndex);
+}
+
+// Usage:
+System.out.println(extractBetweenDelimiters("hello, world!", ",", "!")); // " world"
+```