RegEx ignore in java

Question

Hi i've got a String like "DE32424;WV424324;FR234324;DE45345"

How would I ignore everything after the first ; so only DE32424 would be left in the string after using .replaceAll() in JAVA.

Answer 1

yourString.substring(0, yourString.indexOf(';'))

Answer 2

replaceAll(";.*", "");