[jira] [Issue Comment Deleted] (LANG-1108) Function to replace multiple whitespaces by a character and trim

["Bruno P. Kinoshita (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1108?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Bruno P. Kinoshita updated LANG-1108:
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    Comment: was deleted

(was: Oh, today I learned :-)

I think this solves the first part, and the remainder can be solved via other existing functions too?

{code}
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String value = "   This is     quite the   test.  ";
        System.out.println(value);
        String value2 = StringUtils.normalizeSpace(value).replace(' ', '_');
        System.out.println(value2);
    }
{code}

Results in

{noformat}
   This is     quite the   test.  
This_is_quite_the_test.
{noformat}

So I think this can be achieved with existing functions from [lang] and JRE. What do you think [~djmj]?)

> Function to replace multiple whitespaces by a character and trim
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LANG-1108
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1108
>             Project: Commons Lang
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: lang.*
>            Reporter: Marco Janc
>             Fix For: Discussion
>
>
> In form applications where user can input data its very often not wished to have successive whitespace characters.
> A function that will replace multiple whitespace characters with a single space (or passed string/character) would be a nice feature since I myself repeat this method in many applications.
> Something like a shortcut for:
>     value.replace("\\s+", " ").trim()



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