How do I split a string with multiple spaces?

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.lang;

import java.util.Arrays;

public class SplitStringMultiSpaces {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String text = "04/11/2021    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  = [04/11/2021, SHOES, RUNNING, RED, 99.9, USD]
Wayan

3 Comments

  1. But this is not working for me.

    
    if (str.contains("\\s+")) {
        var String[] strarray = str.split("\\s+")
    }
    

    Is there any alternate solution?

    Reply
    • Hi Sudheen,

      Just try the code snippet in the post to prove that it works. Why did you check if the string contains \\s+ text? Because it will simple check if your text contains that string. And also when you are using the var keyword you don’t need to define the variable type anymore.

      Reply

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