Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: how to trim() a String only at the right side? Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:41:18 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:41:21 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9185b88a2b5381a82810209530bb8295"; logging-data="14903"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/kwKM/o6kiGqvFC+//abBVp+izaDldaw0=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:rfczA5TbU3Z777oUv/j0RssHbg0= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:25339 On 9/25/2013 1:31 PM, markspace wrote: > public CharSequence rTrim( CharSequence cs ) { > if( cs == null ) return null; > if( cs.length() == 0 || cs.charAt( cs.length()-1 ) != ' ' ) > return cs; > int i = cs.length()-1; > while( i >= 0 && cs.charAt( i ) == ' ' ) i--; > return cs.substring( 0, i ); I realized just after I posted that the last line should probably be return cs.substring( 0, i+1 );