Removing whitespace from strings in Java

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zyamat picture zyamat · Mar 28, 2011 · Viewed 1.3M times · Source

I have a string like this: 

mysz = "name=john age=13 year=2001";

I want to remove the whitespaces in the string. I tried trim() but this removes only whitespaces before and after the whole string. I also tried replaceAll("\\W", "") but then the = also gets removed.

How can I achieve a string with:

mysz2 = "name=johnage=13year=2001"

Answer

Gursel Koca picture Gursel Koca · Mar 28, 2011

st.replaceAll("\\s+","") removes all whitespaces and non-visible characters (e.g., tab, \n).

st.replaceAll("\\s+","") and st.replaceAll("\\s","") produce the same result.

The second regex is 20% faster than the first one, but as the number consecutive spaces increases, the first one performs better than the second one.

Assign the value to a variable, if not used directly:

st = st.replaceAll("\\s+","")

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