I have a 'textformfeild' that takes strings and I want to trim the white spaces at the begining and the end and strict the one in the middle to only one space.
for example if my string is like this:(....AB....CD.....) where the black dots represent the white spaces.
and I wanna make it look like this:(AB.CD)
any idea on how to do that? this is what I tried to do:
userWeight!.trim()
but this will remove all the white spaces including the one in the middle
trim will remove left and right spaces. You can use RegExp to remove inner spaces:
void main(List<String> args) {
String data = " AB CD ";
String result = data.trim().replaceAll(RegExp(r' \s+'), ' ');
print(result); //AB CD
}
Trim - If you use trim() this will remove only first and end of the white spaces example,
String str1 = " Hello World ";
print(str1.trim());
The output will be only = Hello World
For your purpose you may use replaceAll
String str1 = "....AB....CD.....";
print(str1.replaceAll("....","."));
The output will be = ".AB.CD."
If you still want to remove first and last . use substring
String str1 = "....AB....CD.....";
print(str1.replaceAll("....",".").substring( 1, str1.length() - 1 ));
The output will be = "AB.CD"
This is what your expected output is.
Trim will remove white spaces before and after the string..
Trim will only remove the leading and trailing spaces or white space characters of a given string
Refer this for more:
String str = " AB CD ";
str = str.trim();
while (str.contains(" ")) {
str = str.replaceAll(" ", " ");
}
print(str);
trim()should not remove stuff in the middle. Can you demonstrate this behaviour with an example?