Correct way to trim a string in Java

Question

In Java, I am doing this to trim a string:

String input = \" some Thing \";
System.out.println(\"before->>\"+input+\"<<-\");
input = input.trim(         


        

Answer 1

If we have to trim a String without using trim(), split() methods of Java then following source code can be helpful.

static String allTrim(String str)
{
    int j = 0;
    int count = 0;  // Number of extra spaces
    int lspaces = 0;// Number of left spaces
    char ch[] = str.toCharArray();
    int len = str.length();
    StringBuffer bchar = new StringBuffer();
    if(ch[0] == ' ')
    {
        while(ch[j] == ' ')
        {
            lspaces++;
            j++;
        }   
    }   
    for(int i = lspaces; i < len; i++)
    {   
        if(ch[i] != ' ')
        {
            if(count > 1 || count == 1)     
            {
                bchar.append(' ');
                count = 0;
            }
            bchar.append(ch[i]);
        }
        else if(ch[i] == ' ')
        {
            count++;    
        }
    }
    return bchar.toString();
}