Java String Whitespace Clean cleanWhitespace(String string)

Description

Reduce multiple consecutive whitspaces to a single space (also removing the \n, \t etc.) and also trim the string

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
string	a parameter

Declaration

public static String cleanWhitespace(String string) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright 2015 DANS - Data Archiving and Networked Services
 * //  w  w  w. j  a  v a 2 s. c o m
 * 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 {
    /**
     * Reduce multiple consecutive whitspaces to a single space (also removing the \n, \t etc.)
     * and also trim the string
     * 
     * @param string
     * @return
     */
    public static String cleanWhitespace(String string) {
        String reduced = string.replaceAll("\\s+", " ");

        return reduced.trim();
    }
}

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2. cleanWhitespace(String in)
3. cleanWhiteSpace(String s, boolean all)
4. cleanWhitespace(String str)
5. cleanWhitespaceAndIndentation(String s, String indent)
6. cleanWhitespaces(String string)