ok thanks,
as I understand \s matches all whitespace characters as there are some
extra unicode whitespace characters in other languages (not part of
ASCII). Maybe it is not worth worrying about these characters though.
I will try you solution above.
On Oct 23, 11:40 pm, Jeffrey Blattman
wrote:
> hi,
>
> i think it has to do with the multiline flag. that causes it to eat the
> newline (read the javadocs). i don't see any neat way to do it, other
> than treating whitespace and newlines separately. for example, something
> lime
>
> / String s1 = "hello\n hello\n\n hello\n hi\n";
> Pattern p = Pattern.compile("^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$|\n$",
> Pattern.MULTILINE);
> Matcher m = p.matcher(s1);
> s1 = m.replaceAll("");/
>
> On 10/23/09 9:16 AM, jax wrote:
>
>
>
> > I am trying to strip all whitespace from "each line" in a EditText
> > View. The expression I am using is this
>
> > String result = Pattern.compile("^\\s+|\\s+$",
> > Pattern.MULTILINE).matcher(input).replaceAll("");
>
> > This works for the following input
>
> >
> > hello
> > hello
> > hello
> > hi
> >
> > This will produce:
> > hello
> > hello
> > hello
> > hi
>
> > but
> >
> > hello
> > hello
>
> > hello
> > hi
> >
> > will produce:
> > hello
> > hellohello
> > hi
>
> > Notice the new line (\n). This is causing the problem. What I want
> > is:
> > hello
> > hello
> > hello
> > hi
>
> > Any ideas about how to fix this?
>
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