Remove extra spaces from string in java

Question

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 1

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 use directly:

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

Answer 2

replaceAll("\\s","")

\w = Anything that is a word character

\W = Anything that isn't a word character (including punctuation etc)

\s = Anything that is a space character (including space, tab characters etc)

\S = Anything that isn't a space character (including both letters and numbers, as well as punctuation etc)

Answer 3

If you need to remove unbreakable spaces too, you can upgrade your code like this :

st.replaceAll("[\\s|\\u00A0]+", "");

Answer 4

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

String pattern="[\\s]";
String replace="";
part="name=john age=13 year=2001";
Pattern p=Pattern.compile(pattern);
Matcher m=p.matcher(part);
part=m.replaceAll(replace);
System.out.println(part);