How to check if a string contains a substring containing spaces?

Question

Say I have a string like this in java:

\"this is {my string: } ok\"

Note, there can be any number of white spaces in between the various characters. How do I

Answer 1

If you have any number of white space between each character of your matching string, I think you are better off removing all white spaces from the string you are trying to match before the search. I.e. :

String searchedString = "this is {my string: } ok";
String stringToMatch = "{my string: }";
boolean foundMatch = searchedString.replaceAll(" ", "").contains(stringToMatch.replaceAll(" ",""));