How to Remove or Trim All White Spaces from a String in Java

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In this short article, we look at how to remove or trim all white spaces from a given string in Java.
Let's first we'll write Java method to trim all whitespace from the given String that is trim white spaces from leading, trailing, and in between characters.

trimAllWhitespace(String str) Method

Let's write a Java method with logic to remove all white spaces.

Logical steps

  1. Iterate over each character of a given String.
  2. Check each character with white space using built-in Character.isWhitespace(c) method.
  3. If the character is not a white space then append a character to StringBuilder instance.
  4. Finally, return String via calling toString() method on StringBuilder instance.
/**
 * Trim <i>all</i> whitespace from the given {@code String}:
 * leading, trailing, and in between characters.
 * @param str the {@code String} to check
 * @return the trimmed {@code String}
 * @see java.lang.Character#isWhitespace
 */
public static String trimAllWhitespace(String str) {
    if (!hasLength(str)) {
        return str;
    }

    int len = str.length();
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(str.length());
    for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
        char c = str.charAt(i);
        if (!Character.isWhitespace(c)) {
            sb.append(c);
        }
    }
    return sb.toString();
}

Complete Java Program

Here is a complete Java program to demonstrate the above method with input value " Java Guides ".
package com.javaguides.corejava.string;

/**
 * @author Ramesh Fadatare
 *
 */
public class StringTrimAllWhitespace {


    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String str = "  Java    Guides    ";
        String result = trimAllWhitespace(str);
        System.out.println(result);
    }
    /**
     * Trim <i>all</i> whitespace from the given {@code String}:
     * leading, trailing, and in between characters.
     * @param str the {@code String} to check
     * @return the trimmed {@code String}
     * @see java.lang.Character#isWhitespace
     */
    public static String trimAllWhitespace(String str) {
        if (!hasLength(str)) {
            return str;
        }

        int len = str.length();
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(str.length());
        for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
            char c = str.charAt(i);
            if (!Character.isWhitespace(c)) {
                sb.append(c);
            }
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }

    public static boolean hasLength(String str) {
        return (str != null && !str.isEmpty());
    }
}
Output:
JavaGuides

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