Char Matcher Trim Leading From 

Google Guava is a java library with lot of utilities and reusable components. This requires the library guava-10.0.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows using CharMatcher.trimLeadingFrom() API. It trims the matching characters from the beginning of given char sequence.

File Name  :   com/bethecoder/tutorials/guava/base_tests/CharMatcherTrimLeadingFromTest.java  Author  :   Sudhakar KV Email  :   [email protected]

package com.bethecoder.tutorials.guava.base_tests; import com.google.common.base.CharMatcher; public class CharMatcherTrimLeadingFromTest {   /**    * @param args    */   public static void main(String[] args) {     System.out.println(CharMatcher.JAVA_LETTER.trimLeadingFrom("abc1234xyz"));     System.out.println(CharMatcher.JAVA_LETTER.trimLeadingFrom("xyz786"));     System.out.println(CharMatcher.anyOf("+- /").trimLeadingFrom("+/- 0.0007"));   } }

1234xyz
786
0.0007