I have this string from mysql DB: it should be this: 2100428169/2010
this is my code
String str = rs.getString("str");
str = str.replaceAll("\\s+","");
str = str.trim();
char[] strCH = str.toCharArray();
and I get this:
[, 2, 1, 0, 0, 4, 2, 8, 1, 6, 9, /, 2, 0, 1, 0]
Why?
It's a problem because I need to use str1.equals(str) but it doesn't work because after
Object obj = (object)str;
It is in obj again with a space at the beginning like when I use toCharArray
so it means equals
doesn't work.
I finally found solution:
it was problem because of ASCII 65279 is something from BOM and trim() doesn't work for it.
this helped: str = str.replace("\uFEFF", "");
Neither replaceAll() nor trim() will work for some characters.
Actually there are several characters that could not be removed with this method. I even saw some files having characters that could not be recognized by java compiler, which creates unbelievable situations.
trim() method removes all \s
from ends of string and by replaceAll() you are removing all \s
from your string.
Instead use following
str = str.replaceAll("[^\\w\\\\]+", "");
You don't need to call trim() now.