Removing spaces at the end of a string in java [duplicate]

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Strip Leading and Trailing Spaces From Java String

When I import data to an application I need to get rid of the spaces at the end of certain strings but not those at the beginning, so I can't use trim()... I've set up a method:

public static String quitarEspaciosFinal(String cadena) {
    String[] trozos = cadena.split(" ");
    String ultimoTrozo = trozos[trozos.length-1];
    return cadena.substring(0,cadena.lastIndexOf(ultimoTrozo.charAt(ultimoTrozo.length()-1))+1);
    }

where cadena is the string I have to transform...

So, if cadena = " 1234 " this method would return " 1234"...

I'd like to know if there's a more efficient way to do this...

Answer 1

You can use replaceAll() method on the String, with the regex \s+$ :

return cadena.replaceAll("\\s+$", "");

If you only want to remove real spaces (not tabulations nor new lines), replace \\s by a space in the regex.

Answer 2

    String s = "   this has spaces at the beginning and at the end      ";
    String result = s.replaceAll("\\s+$", "");

Answer 3

Apache Commons library has the appropriate method stripEnd.

Answer 4

 public static String replaceAtTheEnd(String input){
    input = input.replaceAll("\\s+$", "");
    return input;
}

Answer 5

I'd do it like this:

public static String trimEnd(String s)
{
    if ( s == null || s.length() == 0 )
        return s;
    int i = s.length();
    while ( i > 0 &&  Character.isWhitespace(s.charAt(i - 1)) )
        i--;
    if ( i == s.length() )
        return s;
    else
        return s.substring(0, i);
}

It's way more verbose than using a regular expression, but it's likely to be more efficient.