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

This code is intended to be read a easily as possible by using descriptive names (and avoiding regular expressions).

It does use Java 8's Optional so is not appropriate for everyone.

public static String removeTrailingWhitspace(String string) {
    while (hasWhitespaceLastCharacter(string)) {
        string = removeLastCharacter(string);
    }
    return string;
}

private static boolean hasWhitespaceLastCharacter(String string) {
    return getLastCharacter(string)
            .map(Character::isWhitespace)
            .orElse(false);
}

private static Optional getLastCharacter(String string) {
    if (string.isEmpty()) {
        return Optional.empty();
    }
    return Optional.of(string.charAt(string.length() - 1));
}

private static String removeLastCharacter(String string) {
    if (string.isEmpty()) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("String must not be empty");
    }
    return string.substring(0, string.length() - 1);
}