Removing whitespace from strings in Groovy

Question

I have a string like

String  str = "My name is Monda"

How can I achieve a string like

str  = "MynameisMonda"

Scott · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-05 19:38:10Z

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You can use the replaceAll() function.

For your case:

replaceAll("\\s","")

where \s means any whitespace (such as a space character).

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answered Sep 21, 2013 at 19:09

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If you use this line breaks will be removed as well. In my case this behavior triggered errors further down the groovy script

Dhanendra Pratap Singh · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-15 04:53:21Z

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You just need this function. replaceAll()

str.replaceAll("\\s","")

\s = Anything that is a space character (including space, tab characters etc)

You need to escape the backslash if you want \s to reach the regex engine, resulting in \s. Like wise we use :-

\S = Anything that isn't a space character (including both letters and numbers, as well as punctuation etc)

\w = Anything that is a word character

\W = Anything that isn't a word character (including punctuation etc)

answered Apr 15, 2015 at 4:53

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