Removing carridge Return from A Java String

[bjr149]

I have a box with a string that i need to check to see if there is a carridge return in the box. If there is i need to remove it. Im fairly new to Java so im not really too good at it. Is there an example of this somewhere that i can learn from? Thanks.

[sjalle]

You could use the replace method of the String class, like:

String cr2Blank=boxString.replace('\r',' ');

Just remember, the replace methods create a new String, they don't change the initial String object.

[AdRock]

I am trying to do the same thing but it's not working

Is there a way I can replace more than one character at a time?

I want to replace the carriage return and hyphen so it splits and hyphenated word into 2.

while((textline = MyFile.readLine()) !=null)
{
newString = textline.replace('\r',' ');
String[] numWords = newString.split(" ");

wordCount = wordCount + numWords.length;
System.out.println(textline);

[sjalle]

Nope, not to my knowledge. You have the replace and the replaceAll -methods for the String class. The last one will replace whole sequences of characters. However, to save keystrokes you could write:

newString=textline.replace('\r',' ').replace('\'',' ');