trying to do a string find and replace 1

[jcarrott]

I have a string that sometimes contains spaces and the number of spaces varies. I know how to do this in Perl, but not in Java.

An example of the data is;

800,563751,L6441608-013 000039
120,563751,L557160-166 000044

There are only 3 values; company, vendor, invoice

I need to remove the spaces.

Is there an easy way to do this?

 

[GeekyDeaks]

Hi Carrot,

You should be able to use the replaceAll() method of the string. I am assuming they are immutable strings BTW.

i.e.

newString = oldString.replaceAll("\s+", "");

will remove all occurrences of any whitespace.

Cheers,
Scott

 

[GeekyDeaks]

ah.. just re-read my answer. You need to escape the \s+, so the line should actually read:

newString = oldString.replaceAll("\\s+", "");

Cheers,
Scott

 

[jcarrott]

This fixes that issue, thank you

 

[aka922]

Hi jc,

Since you have a Perl background, you will want to check out Java support for regular expressions: java.util.regex

Smiles,
Jim

 

[mikrom]

Hi jcarrott,
Look at this older thread:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1514448