Whitespaces in java

Question

What are kinds of whitespaces in Java? I need to check in my code if the text contains any whitespaces.

My code is:

if (text.contains(" ") || text.contains("\t") || text.contains("\r") 
       || text.contains("\n"))   
{  
   //code goes here
}   

I already know about \n ,\t ,\r and space.

Answer 1

For a non-regular expression approach, you can check Character.isWhitespace for each character.

boolean containsWhitespace(String s) {
    for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); ++i) {
        if (Character.isWhitespace(s.charAt(i)) {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

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Which are the white spaces in Java?

The documentation specifies what Java considers to be whitespace:

public static boolean isWhitespace(char ch)

Determines if the specified character is white space according to Java. A character is a Java whitespace character if and only if it satisfies one of the following criteria:

• It is a Unicode space character (SPACE_SEPARATOR, LINE_SEPARATOR, or PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR) but is not also a non-breaking space ('\u00A0', '\u2007', '\u202F').
• It is '\u0009', HORIZONTAL TABULATION.
• It is '\u000A', LINE FEED.
• It is '\u000B', VERTICAL TABULATION.
• It is '\u000C', FORM FEED.
• It is '\u000D', CARRIAGE RETURN.
• It is '\u001C', FILE SEPARATOR.
• It is '\u001D', GROUP SEPARATOR.
• It is '\u001E', RECORD SEPARATOR.
• It is '\u001F', UNIT SEPARATOR.

Answer 2

boolean containsWhitespace = false;
for (int i = 0; i < text.length() && !containsWhitespace; i++) {
    if (Character.isWhitespace(text.charAt(i)) {
        containsWhitespace = true;
    }
}
return containsWhitespace;

or, using Guava,

boolean containsWhitespace = CharMatcher.WHITESPACE.matchesAnyOf(text);