Removing whitespace from strings 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()

Answer 1

You should use

s.replaceAll("\\s+", "");

instead of:

s.replaceAll("\\s", "");

This way, it will work with more than one spaces between each string. The + sign in the above regex means "one or more \s"

--\s = Anything that is a space character (including space, tab characters etc). Why do we need s+ here?