How to remove newlines from beginning and end of a string?

Question

I have a string that contains some text followed by a blank line. What\'s the best way to keep the part with text, but remove the whitespace newline from the end?

Answer 1

If you only want to remove line breaks (not spaces, tabs) at the beginning and end of a String (not inbetween), then you can use this approach:

Use a regular expressions to remove carriage returns (\\r) and line feeds (\\n) from the beginning (^) and ending ($) of a string:

 s = s.replaceAll("(^[\\r\\n]+|[\\r\\n]+$)", "")

Complete Example:

public class RemoveLineBreaks {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        var s = "\nHello\nWorld\n";
        System.out.println("before: >"+s+"<");
        s = s.replaceAll("(^[\\r\\n]+|[\\r\\n]+$)", "");
        System.out.println("after: >"+s+"<");
    }
}

It outputs:

before: >
Hello
World
<
after: >Hello
World<