Removing Spaces

[hbutt]

hi there,
jus wanted to know is there a way of removing spaces from a string.

thanx
hgsb

 

[Cagliostro]

if you would remove all spaces:
yourString.replaceAll(" ", ""

if you would remove only beginning and ending spaces:

str = yourString.trim();

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[hbutt]

the replaceAll statement dont work.

 

[new2this2002]

The replaceAll statement does work, try the following example.

public final class RemoveSpaces {
public static void main(String[] argv) {
String s = "TEST SPACE A B CCC D";
System.out.println(s + " " + s.replaceAll(" ", "&quot);
}
}

 

[stefanwagner]

the replaceAll statement dont work.

It's a common mistake to forget, that Strings are final in Java.

If you say:

String s = "A great example";
s.replaceAll (" ", "#"

S.o.p (s);

s in still the same.
If you have read the documentation carefully, you would have seen, that s.replaceAll (a,b) RETURNS a String, in which all a are replaced with b.
It doesn't affect s itself.
But if you assign that result to s again:

s = s.replaceAll (a, b);
S.o.p (s);

you will get the intendet result.

'replaceAll statement dont work' is a kind of 'select is broken'-Pattern, see: pragmatic programmer, d.thomas, a.hunt.

 

[Cagliostro]

>stefanwagner
>the replaceAll statement dont work.
Function replaceAll works and it returns a string what you need. And it is the right function to use in this case. How to use this function is written in a lot of manuals, so I've shown only the right direction.

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