Re: Can't remove extraneous spacing.
Re: Can't remove extraneous spacing.
- Subject: Re: Can't remove extraneous spacing.
- From: Eric Stewart <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:23:52 -0400
I figured out the problem but it's turned up something I don't understand.
I'm getting the input from the request like this:
String value = context().request().stringFormValueForKey("input_field");
When someone enters enters the html entity for a non-breaking space it
is not collapsed with the replaceall() I was using, which makes since.
When I print a string containing a non-breaking space to the console
it's show the space character as /312. For example:
my[non-breaking space]input would print in the console as my\312input
What is that \312 ?
Also, how do I convert all the incoming non-breaking spaces to normal
spaces which will collapse with the replaceall() method?
Thanks a million.
Eric Stewart
On 9/28/05, Art Isbell <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Eric Stewart wrote:
>
> > The problem I'm having is that somehow extra spaces between words are
> > making it into the database.
> >
> > I'm using the following code to remove all extra spaces:
> >
> > value = value.replaceAll("\\s+", " ");
> >
> > But some how input is still making it into the database that is more
> > than 1 space between words.
>
> Your Java should work although
>
> value = value.replaceAll("\\s{2,}", " ");
>
> would ignore single spaces unlike your code.
>
> Where are you using the above statement? Are you certain that
> it is being executed for every string being saved to the DB?
>
> Aloha,
> Art
>
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