How to check if a string contains a substring containing spaces?

Question

Say I have a string like this in java:

\"this is {my string: } ok\"

Note, there can be any number of white spaces in between the various characters. How do I

Answer 1

The easiest thing to do is to strip all the spaces from both strings.

return stringToSearch.replaceAll("\s", "").contains(
  stringToFind.replaceAll("\s", ""));