Java get first 4 letters from the word

Question

Hi!
My code is done, but looking at the assignment I see that name in the sample output was shortened from William to Will. It's might be just a mistype(nothing about that in the assignment), but I don't want to take a chance.

The question is: How can I turn William to Will? Any Simple way without creating a separate function?

Here is the code:

public static void main(String[] args) {
String name = "William";
int age = 25;
double payRate = 18.50;
char office = 'B';

System.out.printf(name + " is " + age + " years old \n");
System.out.printf("He is in office " + office + "\n");
System.out.printf("In a 40-hour week, his pay is

Answer 1

And why can't you just do

name.substring(0,4);

?

Answer 2

Thank you! Great material. But as you can see from my question, I need to get the first letters, not last, so beginIndex isn't suitable in this case