Java Utililty Methods String Whitespace Clean

List of utility methods to do String Whitespace Clean

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Method

StringcleanWhitespace(String definition)
Helper method to make definition strings more Tab-delimited/Excel friendly 
if (definition == null) {
    return "NULL";
return definition.replace("\r", "[CR]").replace("\n", "[LF]").replace("\t", "[TAB]").trim();
StringcleanWhitespace(String in)
Clean - Remove all white spaces 
char[] inArray = in.toCharArray();
StringBuffer out = new StringBuffer(inArray.length);
boolean lastWasSpace = false;
for (int i = 0; i < inArray.length; i++) {
    char c = inArray[i];
    if (Character.isWhitespace(c)) {
        if (!lastWasSpace)
            out.append(' ');
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StringcleanWhiteSpace(String s, boolean all)
clean White Space 
if (s == null) {
    return null;
s = s.trim();
if (all) {
    s = s.replaceAll("\\s+", "");
return s;
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StringcleanWhitespace(String str)
clean Whitespace 
if (str != null) {
    return str.trim().replaceAll("\u00a0", "");
return null;
StringcleanWhitespace(String string)
Reduce multiple consecutive whitspaces to a single space (also removing the \n, \t etc.) and also trim the string 
String reduced = string.replaceAll("\\s+", " ");
return reduced.trim();
StringcleanWhitespaceAndIndentation(String s, String indent)
clean Whitespace And Indentation 
String res = s.replaceAll("[\r\n]", "\n") 
        .replaceAll("\n\\s*", "\n") 
        .replaceAll("\\s*\n", "\n") 
        .replaceAll("[\r\n]", "\n" + indent) 
        .replaceAll("\n\\s*\n", "\n") 
        .replaceAll("}\n", "}\n\n"); 
if (indent.length() >= 2) {
    res = res.replaceAll("\n\\s*}$", "\n" + indent.substring(2) + "}"); 
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StringcleanWhitespaces(String string)
Replace whitespace characters with space character. 
if (string != null) {
    char[] cc = string.toCharArray();
    for (int ci = cc.length - 1; ci > 0; ci--) {
        if (Character.isWhitespace(cc[ci])) {
            cc[ci] = ' ';
    return new String(cc);
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