Removing whitespace from strings in Java

Question

I have a string like this:

mysz = \"name=john age=13 year=2001\";

I want to remove the whitespaces in the string. I tried trim()

Answer 1

private String generateAttachName(String fileName, String searchOn, String char1) {
    return fileName.replaceAll(searchOn, char1);
}


String fileName= generateAttachName("Hello My Mom","\\s","");

Answer 2

String a="string with                multi spaces ";
//or this 
String b= a.replaceAll("\\s+"," ");
String c= a.replace("    "," ").replace("   "," ").replace("  "," ").replace("   "," ").replace("  "," ");

//it work fine with any spaces *don't forget space in sting b

Answer 3

The easiest way to do this is by using the org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils class of commons-lang3 library such as "commons-lang3-3.1.jar" for example.

Use the static method "StringUtils.deleteWhitespace(String str)" on your input string & it will return you a string after removing all the white spaces from it. I tried your example string "name=john age=13 year=2001" & it returned me exactly the string that you wanted - "name=johnage=13year=2001". Hope this helps.

Answer 4

\W means "non word character". The pattern for whitespace characters is \s. This is well documented in the Pattern javadoc.

Answer 5

You should use

s.replaceAll("\\s+", "");

instead of:

s.replaceAll("\\s", "");

This way, it will work with more than one spaces between each string. The + sign in the above regex means "one or more \s"

--\s = Anything that is a space character (including space, tab characters etc). Why do we need s+ here?

Answer 6

In java we can do following operation:

String pattern="[\\s]";
String replace="";
part="name=john age=13 year=2001";
Pattern p=Pattern.compile(pattern);
Matcher m=p.matcher(part);
part=m.replaceAll(replace);
System.out.println(part);

for this you need to import following packages to your program:

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

i hope it will help you.