public static String extractAlias(String path){
  if (path.contains(ALIAS_DELIMITER)) {
    return path.substring(path.indexOf(ALIAS_DELIMITER) + 4);
  }
  return StringUtils.EMPTY;
}

public static String extractAlias ( String path ) { if ( path . contains ( ALIAS_DELIMITER ) ) { return path . substring ( path . indexOf ( ALIAS_DELIMITER ) + 4 ) ; } return StringUtils . EMPTY ; }
extracts the alias from a column path . this method does not use the antlr parser due to problems with german umlauts .
