How to remove all white spaces in java

Question

I have a programming assignment and part of it requires me to make code that reads a line from the user and removes all the white space within that line. the line can consist of one word or more.

What I was trying to do with this program is have it analyze each character until it finds a space and then save that substring as the first token. then loop again until it reaches no more tokens or the end of the line.

I keep on getting this when I try to compile it:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index   out of range: 1
    at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:694)
    at trim.main(trim.java:23)

Here is the code

import java.util.Scanner ;
import java.lang.Character;
import java.lang.String ;
public class trim
{
        public static void main (String[]args)
        {

        String a  ;
        String b  ;
        String c ;
        char aChar ;
        int i = 0 ;

        Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);

        a = scan.nextLine();
        a =a.trim() ;


         for ( ; i >= 0 ; i++ )
         {
           aChar = a.charAt(i) ;
           if (aChar != 32)
           {
            a = a.substring(0,i+1);
           }
           else
           {
            b = a.substring(i,160) ;
            b= b.trim();
            c = c + a ;
            c = c.trim() ;
            a = b ;
            i = 0 ;
           }
           if (b.equals(null))
           {
            i = -1 ;
           }
         }
        }
}

easier ways to do this is appreciated, but I still want to get this program working.

and I can't use sentinels in the input.

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Thanks everybody for all the help,

I will use the simpler method , and will read the javadoc.

Answer 1

java.lang.String class has method substring not substr , thats the error in your program.

Moreover you can do this in one single line if you are ok in using regular expression.

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