Remove unwanted chars (new line,tab) in java

[sujith delpachithra]

i am using informix server as my database. i have some data in it with dirty values like new line chars,tab chars etc.

i want to remove those from my database.

Please, reply.

[Arka Guhathakurta]

copy the content to a string variable and then use trim method to remove unwanted spaces from either side of the string.
Note that trim will not remove whitespace chars inside the string between words.
I hope it helps.

[Ankit Garg]

If you want to remove the spaces from the middle of the string too, you can use the replaceAll method of String class with a regex like \s to replace all the space characters with anything that you like. This method would be a little slow if you want to update all the records. You should try a bulk update query specific to your database to achieve that...