This code snippet show you how to split string with multiple white-space characters. To split the string this way we use the "\s+" regular expression. The white-space characters include space, tab, line-feed, carriage-return, new line, form-feed.

Let’s see the code snippet below:

package org.kodejava.example.lang;

import java.util.Arrays;

public class SplitStringMultiSpaces {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String text = "12/07/2012    SHOES      RUNNING RED   99.9 USD";

        //
        // Split the string using the \s+ regex to split multi spaces
        // line of text.
        //
        String[] items = text.split("\s+");
        System.out.println("Length = " + items.length);
        System.out.println("Items  = " + Arrays.toString(items));
    }
}

The result of the code snippet is:

Length = 6
Items  = [12/07/2012, SHOES, RUNNING, RED, 99.9, USD]

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