Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Copyright 2009 Welocalize, Inc. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * * You may obtain a copy of the License at * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. * */ public class Main { /** * collapse multi-whitespace into one whitespace in the original text. * Support unicode white space with isWhitespace and isSpaceChar method in * {@link #Character} * * @param oriText * @return */ public static String collapseWhiteSpace(StringBuffer oriText) { if (oriText == null) { return null; } int oriLen = oriText.length(); StringBuffer newText = new StringBuffer(oriLen); int wsCount = 0; char lastWs = ' '; for (int i = 0; i <= oriLen; i++) { if (i == oriLen) { if (wsCount == 1) { newText.append(lastWs); } if (wsCount > 1) { newText.append(' '); } wsCount = 0; break; } char c = oriText.charAt(i); if (Character.isWhitespace(c) || Character.isSpaceChar(c)) { wsCount++; lastWs = c; } else { if (wsCount == 1) { newText.append(lastWs); } if (wsCount > 1) { newText.append(' '); } wsCount = 0; newText.append(c); } } String relt = newText.toString(); return relt; } }