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

I am trying an aggregation answer where I test all ways of removing all whitespaces in a string. Each method is ran 1 million times and then then the average is taken. Note: Some compute will be used on summing up all the runs.

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Results:

1st place from @jahir 's answer

• StringUtils with short text: 1.21E-4 ms (121.0 ms)
• StringUtils with long text: 0.001648 ms (1648.0 ms)

2nd place

• String builder with short text: 2.48E-4 ms (248.0 ms)
• String builder with long text: 0.00566 ms (5660.0 ms)

3rd place

• Regex with short text: 8.36E-4 ms (836.0 ms)
• Regex with long text: 0.008877 ms (8877.0 ms)

4th place

• For loop with short text: 0.001666 ms (1666.0 ms)
• For loop with long text: 0.086437 ms (86437.0 ms)

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Here is the code:

public class RemoveAllWhitespaces {
    public static String Regex(String text){
        return text.replaceAll("\\s+", "");
    }

    public static String ForLoop(String text) {
        for (int i = text.length() - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
            if(Character.isWhitespace(text.codePointAt(i))) {
                text = text.substring(0, i) + text.substring(i + 1);
            }
        }

        return text;
    }

    public static String StringBuilder(String text){
        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(text);
        for (int i = text.length() - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
            if(Character.isWhitespace(text.codePointAt(i))) {
                builder.deleteCharAt(i);
            }
        }

        return builder.toString();
    }
}

Here are the tests:

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import java.util.function.Function;
import java.util.stream.IntStream;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;

public class RemoveAllWhitespacesTest {
    private static final String longText = "123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222123 123 \t 1adc \n 222";
    private static final String expected = "1231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc2221231231adc222";

    private static final String shortText = "123 123 \t 1adc \n 222";
    private static final String expectedShortText = "1231231adc222";

    private static final int numberOfIterations = 1000000;

    @Test
    public void Regex_LongText(){
        RunTest("Regex_LongText", text -> RemoveAllWhitespaces.Regex(text), longText, expected);
    }

    @Test
    public void Regex_ShortText(){
        RunTest("Regex_LongText", text -> RemoveAllWhitespaces.Regex(text), shortText, expectedShortText);

    }

    @Test
    public void For_LongText(){
        RunTest("For_LongText", text -> RemoveAllWhitespaces.ForLoop(text), longText, expected);
    }

    @Test
    public void For_ShortText(){
        RunTest("For_LongText", text -> RemoveAllWhitespaces.ForLoop(text), shortText, expectedShortText);
    }

    @Test
    public void StringBuilder_LongText(){
        RunTest("StringBuilder_LongText", text -> RemoveAllWhitespaces.StringBuilder(text), longText, expected);
    }

    @Test
    public void StringBuilder_ShortText(){
        RunTest("StringBuilder_ShortText", text -> RemoveAllWhitespaces.StringBuilder(text), shortText, expectedShortText);
    }

    private void RunTest(String testName, Function func, String input, String expected){
        long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        IntStream.range(0, numberOfIterations)
                .forEach(x -> assertEquals(expected, func.apply(input)));
        double totalMilliseconds = (double)System.currentTimeMillis() - (double)startTime;
        System.out.println(
                String.format(
                        "%s: %s ms (%s ms)",
                        testName,
                        totalMilliseconds / (double)numberOfIterations,
                        totalMilliseconds
                )
        );
    }
}