How to remove only trailing spaces of a string in Java and keep leading spaces?

Question

The trim() function removes both the trailing and leading space, however, if I only want to remove the trailing space of a string, how can I do it?

Answer 1

I modified the original java.lang.String.trim() method a bit and it should work:

  public String trim(String str) {
        int len = str.length();
        int st = 0;

        char[] val = str.toCharArray();

        while ((st < len) && (val[len - 1] <= ' ')) {
            len--;
        }
        return str.substring(st, len);
    }

Test:

  Test test = new Test();
  String sample = "            Hello World               "; // A String with trailing and leading spaces
  System.out.println(test.trim(sample) + " // No trailing spaces left");

Output:

        Hello World // No trailing spaces left