Java how to replace 2 or more spaces with single s

Question

Looking for quick, simple way in Java to change this string

" hello     there   "

to something that looks like this

"hello there"

where I replace all those multiple spaces with a single space, except I also want the one or more spaces at the beginning of string to be gone.

Something like this gets me partly there

String mytext = " hello     there   ";
mytext = mytext.replaceAll("( )+", " ");

but not quite.

Answer 1

Please use below code

package com.myjava.string;

import java.util.StringTokenizer;

public class MyStrRemoveMultSpaces {

    public static void main(String a[]){

        String str = "String    With Multiple      Spaces";

        StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(str, " ");

        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();

        while(st.hasMoreElements()){
            sb.append(st.nextElement()).append(" ");
        }

        System.out.println(sb.toString().trim());
    }
}