How to remove String Empty space in android

Question

I want to remove empty space from the first String and make it look like the second String.

1)EVANS MD                 JOSEPH       J
2)EVANS MD JOSEPH J

My code:

String finaloriginAutoCompleteText = providerOriginAddress.get(position).getProviderName();

finaloriginAutoCompleteText.trim(); explanation: It returns a copy of this string with leading and trailing white space removed, or this string if it has no leading or trailing white space. — Ram Prakash Bhat
– Ram Prakash Bhat, Commented Apr 13, 2016 at 14:41
Possible duplicate of How to remove duplicate white spaces in string using Java? — Laur Ivan
– Laur Ivan, Commented Apr 13, 2016 at 14:43
@Ram This only works with whitespaces at the beginning and end, trim() will not remove inner extra whitespaces String.trim() — Slobodan Antonijević
– Slobodan Antonijević, Commented Apr 13, 2016 at 14:53

Slobodan Antonijević · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-13 14:57:40Z

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String finaloriginAutoCompleteText;
finaloriginAutoCompleteText = providerOriginAddress.get(position).getProviderName();

// trim the string (for leading and ending whitespaces) and then
// replace all remaining (inner) multiple spaces (\s+) with a single space (" ")
finaloriginAutoCompleteText = finaloriginAutoCompleteText.trim().replaceAll("\\s+", " ");

edited Apr 13, 2016 at 14:57

answered Apr 13, 2016 at 14:47

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Krish Over a year ago

so how can we remove with whitespaces at the beginning and end and also how to remove inner extra whitespaces

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